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  OTG Ltd v Barke and other appeals [2011] IRLR 272 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  This Court of Appeal in Key2Law (Surrey) LLP v De'Antiquis has approved the approach taken in this case, preferring the rigid rule that administration can never constitute "analogous insolvency proceedings" under reg.8(7) of TUPE.

  • TUPE applies as normal to transfers from administration

    Date:

    22 February 2011

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the exemption from automatic employee transfer under reg.8(7) of TUPE cannot apply to a transfer from an administration. 

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  Oudahar v Esporta Group Ltd [2011] IRLR 730 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal: Dismissal for health and safety reason can be automatically unfair where employer does not share employee's belief in danger

    Date:

    1 February 2012

    In Oudahar v Esporta Group Ltd [2011] IRLR 730 EAT, the EAT held that a dismissal could be automatically unfair for a reason related to health and safety even though the employer genuinely did not share the employee's belief that a situation was dangerous, and dismissed him for his repeated failure to undertake a task that he thought was unsafe.

  • Employee can be automatically unfairly dismissed over safety concerns even when employer genuinely disagrees

    Date:

    28 June 2011

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employee who was dismissed for refusing to work because of health and safety concerns, even though his employer genuinely believed that there was no danger, could be automatically unfairly dismissed. 

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  Overton v Nuclear Electric plc [1994] IT/42256/94 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Buy-out not offered to staff on career break

    Date:

    1 June 1995

    In Overton v Nuclear Electric plc a Bristol industrial tribunal (Chair: C G Toomer) finds that there was no indirect discrimination in an employer's failure to offer a payment for accepting new terms and conditions to employees on career breaks.

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  Owen & Briggs v James [1982] IRLR 502 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Owen & Briggs v James

    Date:

    1 December 1982

    In Owen & Briggs v James [1982] IRLR 502 CA, the Court of Appeal held that the Industrial Tribunal and the EAT had not erred in concluding that the appellants had acted in breach of the Race Relations Act by refusing or deliberately omitting to offer the respondent employment in that they had, on racial grounds, treated her less favourably than they had treated or would have treated other persons.

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  Owen v the Professional Golf Association [2000] ET/1303043/98 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Trouser bar unlawful

    Date:

    1 March 2000

    A female manager who resigned after being ordered home to change from her trouser suit into a skirt, was unlawfully discriminated against on grounds of sex, holds a Birmingham employment tribunal (Chair: A J McCarry) in Owen v the Professional Golf Association.