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  Pepper (HM Inspector of Taxes) v Hart and others [1993] IRLR 33 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Pepper (HM Inspector of Taxes) v Hart and others

    Date:

    1 January 1993

    In Pepper (HM Inspector of Taxes) v Hart and others [1993] IRLR 33 HL, the House of Lords held that in-house benefits, and particularly concessionary school fees for teachers' children, should be assessed for tax on the basis of the additional or marginal cost to the employer of providing the benefit.

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  Percy v Church of Scotland Board of National Mission [2006] IRLR 195 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employment status/sex discrimination: Church minister was employee for sex discrimination purposes

    Date:

    7 April 2006

    In Percy v Church of Scotland Board of National Mission, the House of Lords holds that a church minister who had entered into a contract personally to execute work or labour was an "employee" for the purposes of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.

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  Pereda v Madrid Movilidad SA [2009] IRLR 959 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Annual leave: National law must not prevent employee from taking leave at later time if sick during allotted leave period

    Date:

    23 November 2009

    In Pereda v Madrid Movilidad SA [2009] IRLR 959 ECJ, the ECJ held that art.7(1) of the Working Time Directive must be interpreted as precluding national provisions or collective agreements that deny a worker who is on sick leave during a period of scheduled annual leave the right to take the annual leave at a later time, even if this is outside the holiday year in which the annual leave was accrued.

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  Pereira v The Post Office [1994] IT/18088/94 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Liability for racist abuse

    Date:

    1 March 1995

    In Pereira v The Post Office, a Southampton industrial tribunal rules that the Post Office, which had properly followed "full procedures", was not liable for the racial abuse suffered by an employee from a fellow employee. However, in Cooley v BRS Ltd, a Reading industrial tribunal rules that BRS had failed to properly implement its harassment policy and was liable for the racial abuse of one employee by another.

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  Perkin v St George's Healthcare NHS Trust [2005] IRLR 934 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal: Dismissal on grounds of personality is fair despite technical competence

    Date:

    2 December 2005

    In Perkin v St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, the Court of Appeal holds that an employment tribunal was entitled to make a 100% reduction to the compensation of a senior executive whose dismissal was procedurally unfair, on the basis that his conduct at the disciplinary hearing was such that it destroyed any possibility of him working with senior colleagues in the future.

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  Pestell v Esselte Meto Ltd [1993] IT/576/93 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Maternity returner dismissed for "lack of commitment"

    Date:

    1 June 1994

    A woman who was dismissed three months after returning from maternity leave for lack of commitment when in contrast a male colleague who lacked commitment was counselled and promoted, was discriminated on grounds of sex, rules a Reading industrial tribunal (Chair V K Leese) in Pestell v Esselte Meto Ltd.

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  Peters v Sat Katar Co Ltd [2003] IRLR 574 CA (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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  Pfeiffer and others v Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, Kreisverband Waldshut eV [2005] IRLR 137 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Working time: Direct effect of and exclusions from 48-hour week

    Date:

    11 February 2005

    In Pfeiffer and others v Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, Kreisverband Waldshut eV, the European Court of Justice held that the exclusion of 'road transport' from the provisions of the Working Time Directive did not cover emergency workers, even when they used a road vehicle and accompanied patients on their journeys to hospital.

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  Philip v London Borough of Brent [1995] IT/50530/92 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Council policy to reduce number of black managers

    Date:

    1 June 1995

    An officer in charge of a children's home was selected for redundancy in pursuance of the council's policy to reduce the number of black persons in management, a London (North) industrial tribunal (Chair: B A Calvert QC) finds in Philip v London Borough of Brent.

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  Phillips v Promould Ltd [1994] IT/23294/93 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Dismissed because of personal relationships

    Date:

    1 September 1994

    In Jewess v JSB Electrical plc, a Manchester industrial tribunal (Chair: E T Connolly) rules that a woman who was dismissed because her relationship with a former male employee who had left to work for a competitor was still continuing and her employer believed that information about the business would be passed to the competitor was not unlawful discrimination.