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  Kidd v Axa Equity & Law Life Assurance Society plc and another [2000] IRLR 301 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Kidd v Axa Equity & Law Life Assurance Society plc and another

    Date:

    1 May 2000

    In Kidd v Axa Equity & Law Life Assurance Society plc and another [2000] IRLR 301 HC, the High Court held that the duty of care in respect of the provision of references extends to taking reasonable care not to give misleading information.

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  Kimberley Group Housing Ltd v Hambley and others; Angel Services (UK) Ltd v Hambley and others [2008] IRLR 682 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • TUPE: Liability under employment contracts should not be split between transferees

    Date:

    11 August 2008

    In Kimberley Group Housing Ltd v Hambley and others; Angel Services (UK) Ltd v Hambley and others EAT/0488/07 & EAT/0489/07, the EAT overturned an employment tribunal decision to split liability for employment contracts in proportion to the split in activities after a service provision change.

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  Kingston & Richmond Area Health Authority v Kaur [1981] IRLR 337 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Discrimination: Standard uniform requirement discriminating against Sikhs held justifiable

    Date:

    6 October 1981

    In Kingston & Richmond Area Health Authority v Kaur, the EAT has ruled that a requirement by a health authority that enrolled nurses wear a standard uniform which could not be varied is "justifiable" within the meaning of s.1(1)(b)(ii) of the Race Relations Act and that in applying such a requirement to a Sikh woman, whose religion requires her to wear trousers, the employers had not unlawfully indirectly discriminated against her.

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  Kirklees Metropolitan Council v Radecki [2009] IRLR 555 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Effective date of termination: Employment terminated on date employee's pay ceased

    Date:

    13 July 2009

    In Kirklees Metropolitan Council v Radecki [2009] IRLR 555 CA, the Court of Appeal held that the contract of an employee with whom the employer was negotiating a compromise agreement terminated on the date that the employer stopped paying the employee, even though at that point the draft agreement had not been executed by the parties.

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  Kirton v Tetrosyl Ltd [2003] IRLR 353 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: Individual with asymptomatic cancer "disabled" when treatment caused impairment

    Date:

    18 July 2003

    In Kirton v Tetrosyl Ltd, the Court of Appeal holds that an individual suffering from urinary incontinence - not of itself a substantive "impairment" within the meaning of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 - is nonetheless disabled under that Act where the incontinence was caused by surgery conducted as a standard treatment for the progressive condition of asymptomatic cancer.

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  Klusova v London Borough of Hounslow [2007] EWCA Civ 1127 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal: Immigration status of employee

    Date:

    29 January 2008

    In Klusova v London Borough of Hounslow [2007] EWCA Civ 1127, the Court of Appeal upheld a finding of unfair dismissal in the case of an employee who was dismissed on the grounds that she was no longer entitled to work in the UK. There was evidence to support the tribunal's finding that the employee was, in fact, legally entitled to work in the UK at the time of her dismissal. While the employer's mistaken belief about her immigration status was capable of amounting to "some other substantial reason" for dismissal, the fact that the employer had failed to follow the statutory dismissal procedure rendered the dismissal automatically unfair.

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  Kopel v Safeway Stores plc [2003] IRLR 753 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure: part 2

    Date:

    16 April 2004

    The second of our two-part feature on noteworthy decisions in practice and procedure at the employment tribunals and EAT looks at bias, the right to a fair hearing and a range of other issues.

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  Kraft Foods UK Ltd v Hastie EAT/0024/10 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Age discrimination: Cap on enhanced redundancy pay not unlawful

    Date:

    9 November 2010

    In Kraft Foods UK Ltd v Hastie EAT/0024/10, the EAT held that a contractual redundancy scheme that capped payments at the total amount of earnings that the employee would have received prior to retirement was justified as a proportionate means of preventing redundant employees from receiving a windfall.

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  Kraus v Penna plc and another [2004] IRLR 260 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Whistleblowing update

    Date:

    18 August 2006

    Legislation protecting whistleblowers was introduced seven years ago. This article reviews the legislation and considers some of the substantial body of case law arising out of it. It also looks at the components of an effective whistleblowing policy.

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  Kücük v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen [2012] IRLR 697 ECJ (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Fixed-term employees: Successive fixed-term contracts may be justified to cover an employer's permanent or recurring need for replacement staff

    Date:

    14 August 2012

    In Kücük v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen [2012] IRLR 697 ECJ, the ECJ held that an employer's use of 13 successive fixed-term contracts over a period of 11 years was not inherently in breach of the Fixed-term Workers Directive, but that the issue of objective justification had to be assessed by the national court on the particular facts of the case.

  • ECJ: renewal of fixed-term employment contracts may be justified by replacement needs

    Date:

    6 February 2012

    The European Court of Justice has suggested that it may be possible for employers to justify engaging an individual for more than four years on a succession of fixed-term contracts as he or she moves around to cover work for different absent employees.