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  NHS Leeds v Larner [2012] IRLR 825 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • NHS worker who made no holiday requests during long-term sick leave entitled to holiday pay on termination

    Date:

    25 July 2012

    The Court of Appeal has held that an NHS worker who was absent for the whole leave year and who did not submit any requests for annual leave during her absence was entitled to holiday pay on the termination of her employment. 

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  Nicholas v Tina Grant t/a Sandancers Cafe EAT/0198/06 (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.

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  Nicolson Highlandwear Ltd v Nicolson [2010] IRLR 859 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Costs: pursuing claim purely for declaration of unfair dismissal is unreasonable behaviour

    Date:

    22 July 2010

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, in the context of costs applications, it is unreasonable behaviour for a claimant to pursue an unfair dismissal claim purely for the purpose of obtaining a declaration that he or she was unfairly dismissed.

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  Nikoloudi v Organismos Tilepikinonion Ellados AE Case C-196/02 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: case law update

    Date:

    3 February 2006

    We review recent significant equal pay cases and their implications. Developments of note include the application of the "single source" test to comparators within an employment unit, and a reference to the ECJ on whether use of length of service as a pay system criterion requires specific objective justification.

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  Nimz v Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg [1991] IRLR 222 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: case law update

    Date:

    2 March 2007

    This article looks at some of the significant judgments in the area of equal pay over the past year and their implications.

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  Noor v Telewest Communications (South East) Ltd [2000] ET/2305006/98 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Female sales rep sexually harassed

    Date:

    1 September 2000

    In Noor v Telewest Communications (South East) Ltd a London South employment tribunal (Chair: M E Stacey) holds that a female sales representative, the only woman in a sales force of around 70 employees, was subjected to a number of incidents of sexual harassment over a 12-month period, including the posting of female pin-ups in her office and the making of sexist comments about her by a manager in front of her colleagues.

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  Norbrook Laboratories Ltd v Smyth 30 September 1986 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Confidentiality clause valid

    Date:

    18 August 1987

    In Norbrook Laboratories Ltd v Smyth the High Court in Northern Ireland holds that a restrictive covenant which was signed by an employee in the course of employment was binding in law. The court further holds that the confidentiality clause should not be regarded as void for being In restraint of trade even though the restriction was world-wide and was to last for one year alter the employment ended.

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  North Western Health Board v McKenna [2005] IRLR 895 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: Sick pay scheme not discriminatory

    Date:

    14 October 2005

    In North Western Health Board v McKenna, the ECJ holds that a sick leave scheme that treats female workers who suffer from a pregnancy-related illness in the same way as workers suffering from other types of illness falls within the scope of the Equal Pay Directive 75/117/EC rather than the Equal Treatment Directive 76/207/EC.

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  Northern Joint Police Board v Power [1997] IRLR 610 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Race discrimination: Scottish and English are racial groups

    Date:

    15 November 1997

    The Scottish and the English constitute separate racial groups for the purposes of the Race Relations Act, defined by reference to their "national origins", rules the EAT in Northern Joint Police Board v Power.

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  Nottinghamshire County Council v Meikle [2004] IRLR 703 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Nottinghamshire County Council v Meikle

    Date:

    1 September 2004

    In Nottinghamshire County Council v Meikle [2004] IRLR 703 CA, the Court of Appeal held that putting an employee who was off sick for a disability-related reason on to half pay after a period of full pay was unjustified less favourable treatment where the employer had failed to make reasonable adjustments, which, had they been made, would have resulted in the employee's returning to work before she became liable to have her sick pay reduced.