Cases within M

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  Merino Gómez v Continental Industrias del Caucho SA [2004] IRLR 407 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Pregnancy discrimination: Annual and maternity leave mutually exclusive

    Date:

    23 July 2004

    In Merino Gomez v Continental Industrias del Caucho SA, the European Court of Justice holds that pregnant workers have a dual entitlement to annual leave and maternity leave: pregnant workers must be able to take their annual leave during a period other than their period of maternity leave.

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  Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Ltd v Coggins and Griffith (Liverpool) Ltd [1946] 2 All ER 345 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Ltd v Coggins and Griffith (Liverpool) Ltd

    Date:

    31 December 1946

    In Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Ltd v Coggins and Griffith (Liverpool) Ltd [1946] 2 All ER 345 HL, the House of Lords held that where a crane was hired with a driver and that driver was negligent, the driver's employer would be vicariously liable. Where the negligence was in the way in which the hirer used the crane then the hirer would for that purpose be the employer of the driver. The terms of the contract between the hirer and the employer cannot affect liability to the injured person.

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  Meter U Ltd v Ackroyd and others; Meter U Ltd v Hardy and others [2012] IRLR 367 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • TUPE transfers: move to franchise model can be ETO reason for dismissal

    Date:

    8 March 2012

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the dismissal of employees transferred to a company that engaged individuals only under a franchise agreement could amount to an economic, technical or organisational reason (ETO) for dismissal entailing changes to the workforce. 

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  Metrobus Ltd v Unite the Union [2009] IRLR 851 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Metrobus Ltd v Cook

    Date:

    14 February 2007

    In Metrobus Ltd v Cook EAT/0490/06, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that an employment tribunal did not err in increasing the amount of unfair dismissal compensation by 40% where an employer had failed to follow the statutory disciplinary and dismissal procedure.

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  Metropolitan Resources Ltd v Churchill Dulwich Ltd (in liquidation) and others [2009] IRLR 700 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • TUPE: Service provision change within meaning of TUPE Regulations 2006 had occurred

    Date:

    8 September 2009

    In Metropolitan Resources Ltd v Churchill Dulwich Ltd (in liquidation) and others [2009] IRLR 700 EAT, the EAT held that, when determining whether or not there has been a service provision change within the meaning of the TUPE Regulations 2006, tribunals should consider if the activities carried out by the alleged transferee are essentially or fundamentally the same as those carried out by the alleged transferor.

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  MHC Consulting Services Ltd v Tansell and others [1999] IRLR 677 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: End user of contract worker's services was "principal"

    Date:

    1 December 1999

    Where there is an unbroken chain of contracts between an individual and an end user, the end user should be regarded as the "principal" within the meaning of the contract-worker provisions contained in s.12 of the Disability Discrimination Act, the EAT holds in MHC Consulting Services Ltd v Tansell and others.

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  Mian v Common Services Agency and Brotherston [1994] IT/4663/92 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Pakistani doctor discriminated against

    Date:

    1 March 1995

    A Pakistani doctor who was not shortlisted for a medical post because he could not meet the job requirements was unlawfully indirectly discriminated against, rules an Edinburgh industrial tribunal (Chair: S Krietman) in Mian v Common Services Agency and Brotherston.

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  Micklefield v SAC Technology Ltd [1990] IRLR 218 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: No damages for loss of share option on wrongful dismissal

    Date:

    19 June 1990

    The High Court's decision in Micklefield v SAC Technology Ltd illustrates how employees' rights under employee share option schemes can be affected by the termination of their employment.

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  Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust v Cambridge [2003] IRLR 566 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust v Cambridge

    Date:

    1 September 2003

    In Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust v Cambridge [2003] IRLR 566 EAT, the EAT held that an employer's failure to carry out an assessment to enable a decision to be reached as to what steps would be reasonable to prevent a disabled employee or prospective employee from being at a disadvantage amounts to a breach of the duty of reasonable adjustment under section 6 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.

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  Middlesbrough Borough Council v TGWU and another [2002] IRLR 332 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Collective redundancies: Employer failed to consult unions about ways of avoiding collective redundancies

    Date:

    1 August 2001

    In Middlesbrough Borough Council v Transport and General Workers' Union and another, the EAT upholds an employment tribunal's finding of fact that an employer failed to consult representatives of two trade unions that it recognised, in respect of more than 100 employees whom it was proposing to make redundant within 90 days, about ways of avoiding the dismissals.