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  Lee and others v GEC Plessey Telecommunications [1993] IRLR 383 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Employer's attempt to withdraw enhanced redundancy scheme fails

    Date:

    1 March 1993

    An employer had no right to withdraw unilaterally its employees' contractual entitlement to enhanced redundancy payments, holds the High Court in Lee and others v GEC Plessey Telecommunications.

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  Legal & General Assurance Ltd v Kirk [2002] IRLR 124 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Legal & General Assurance Ltd v Kirk

    Date:

    1 February 2002

    In Legal & General Assurance Ltd v Kirk [2002] IRLR 124 CA, the Court of Appeal held that a case based on negligent misstatement must involve a statement, such as a reference, to a third party. It ruled that the duty to take reasonable care in preparing references does not extend to cover a situation in which no negligent reference has in fact been given.

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  Leicestershire County Council v Unison [2006] IRLR 810 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Collective redundancies: Tribunal's discretion in making protective awards

    Date:

    1 November 2006

    In Leicestershire County Council v Unison [2006] IRLR 810 CA, the Court of Appeal holds that a tribunal was entitled to make the maximum protective award in respect of a group of employees who had been dismissed and offered new terms without consultation with the relevant unions.

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  Leisure Employment Services Ltd v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs [2007] IRLR 450 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Leisure Employment Services Ltd v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs

    Date:

    27 February 2007

    In Leisure Employment Services Ltd v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs [2007] IRLR 450 CA, the Court of Appeal has held that sums deducted from the pay of workers living in employer-provided accommodation to offset the cost of utility bills can not be counted as part of their wages for the purposes of establishing if they are receiving the minimum wage.

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  Leisure Leagues UK Ltd v Maconnachie [2002] IRLR 600 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Holiday pay: Calculation of holiday pay on termination based on "working days"

    Date:

    1 August 2002

    In Leisure Leagues UK Ltd v Maconnachie, the EAT holds that a payment in lieu of holiday made on termination of employment should be calculated by reference to a daily rate of pay based on the number of working days in a year (233 days), and not by the number of days in the calendar year (365 days).

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  Leverton v Clwyd County Council [1989] IRLR 28 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: Cross-establishment equal pay claims

    Date:

    24 January 1989

    A woman can claim equal pay with a man working in a different establishment even if her own terms and conditions of employment are not "broadly similar" to his, provided that common terms and conditions are observed at their establishments, either generally or for employees of their respective classes.

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  Lewen v Denda [2000] IRLR 67 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: Refusing to pay Christmas bonus to women on parental leave may not be discriminatory

    Date:

    15 January 2000

    In Lewen v Denda, the European Court of Justice rules that, where a bonus that is paid voluntarily as an exceptional allowance at Christmas is awarded retroactively as pay for work done, an employer is precluded by Article 141 of the Treaty of Rome from excluding female workers on parental leave entirely from the benefit of the bonus, without taking account of the work done. But an employer may lawfully refuse to pay such a bonus to a woman on parental leave where that payment is subject only to her being in active employment.

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  Lewis v Surrey County Council [1987] IRLR 509 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Continuity of employment: No aggregation of hours permissible

    Date:

    1 December 1987

    In Lewis v Surrey County Council, the House of Lords rules that where an employee is employed under separate but concurrent part-time contracts, she is not entitled to aggregate the number of weekly hours worked under each contract in order to establish that a week "counts" towards a period of employment for the purposes of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978.

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  Liberty Living plc v Reid EAT/0039/10 (1 report relating to this case)

  • EAT holds that "confusing" alcohol policy led to unfair dismissal

    Date:

    10 March 2011

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld a tribunal decision that an employee's dismissal was unfair because it was based on a confusing alcohol policy of which he was unaware. 

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  Lightways (Contractors) Ltd v Associated Holdings Ltd [2000] IRLR 247 CS (1 report relating to this case)

  • TUPE case law update

    Date:

    2 February 2007

    This article looks at some of the important judgments in the area of the transfer of undertakings over the past year.