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  Pressure Coolers Ltd v Molloy and others [2011] IRLR 630 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Transferee liable for unfair dismissal award following "pre-pack" TUPE transfer

    Date:

    15 June 2011

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that it is the transferee, rather than the Secretary of State, that is liable to pay the unfair dismissal basic award and notice of an employee who is dismissed after a "pre-pack" administration and TUPE transfer of the business as a going concern. 

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  Preston and others v Wolverhampton Healthcare NHS Trust and others (No.2) [2001] IRLR 237 HL (2 reports 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.

  • Equal pay: Six-month time limit is compatible with Community law

    Date:

    1 March 2001

    In Preston and others v Wolverhampton Healthcare NHS Trust and others (No.2) and Fletcher and others v Midland Bank plc (No.2) the House of Lords holds that the six-month limitation period laid down in s.2(4) of the Equal Pay Act 1970 does not breach the principle of equivalence.

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  Prestwick Circuits Ltd v McAndrew [1990] IRLR 191 CS (1 report relating to this case)

  • Prestwick Circuits Ltd v McAndrew

    Date:

    1 May 1990

    In Prestwick Circuits Ltd v McAndrew [1990] IRLR 191 CS, the Court of Session held that the implied right to order a transfer from one place of employment to another must be subject to the implied qualification that reasonable notice must be given in all the circumstances of the case.

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  Prigge and others v Deutsche Lufthansa AG [2011] IRLR 1052 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Age discrimination: German collective agreement requiring pilots to retire at 60

    Date:

    19 September 2011

    The European Court of Justice has held that a rule in a collective agreement applicable to the crew of the German airline Deutsche Lufthansa prohibiting pilots from flying after the age of 60 is discriminatory on the ground of age. 

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  Print Factory (London) 1991 Ltd v Millam [2006] IRLR 923 EAT (2 reports 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.

  • Transfer of undertakings: Change of control on share sale does not amount to TUPE transfer

    Date:

    17 November 2006

    In The Print Factory (London) 1991 Ltd v Millam EAT/0253/06, the Employment Appeal Tribunal holds that a TUPE transfer could not be inferred from the fact that, after an acquisition of shares, the holding company exercised management control of the subsidiary.

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  Prior v City Plumbing Supplies Ltd EAT/0535/11 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employee unfairly dismissed for imprisonment guilty of contributory conduct

    Date:

    16 May 2012

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has affirmed the employment tribunal's decision that an employee who was unfairly dismissed because the employer believed his prison sentence frustrated his contract of employment was guilty of contributory conduct. 

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  Project Management Institute v Latif [2007] IRLR 579 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Burden of proof in disability discrimination cases

    Date:

    1 July 2007

    The EAT provides guidance on shifting the burden of proof in disability discrimination claims, in Project Management Institute v Latif (10 May 2007).

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  Protectacoat Firthglow Ltd v Szilagyi [2009] IRLR 365 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employment status: "Sham" contract for services did not reflect parties' true relationship

    Date:

    19 May 2009

    In Protectacoat Firthglow Ltd v Szilagyi [2009] IRLR 365 CA, the Court of Appeal held that a purported contract for services - entered into by the worker as a prerequisite for being given work - was a sham, because it did not represent the parties' true intentions and expectations. The individual was an employee, not an independent contractor.

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  Provident Financial Group plc and Whitegates Estate Agency Ltd v Hayward [1989] IRLR 84 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Restraining employee competition during the notice period

    Date:

    21 February 1989

    In Provident Financial Group plc and Whitegates Estate Agency Ltd v Hayward the Court of Appeal upholds a judge's refusal to grant an injunction to restrain the group's former finance director from joining a competitor before his notice period had expired.

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  Przybylska v Modus Telecom Ltd EAT/0566/06 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Notice rights on expiry of probationary period

    Date:

    8 August 2007

    In Przybylska v Modus Telecom Ltd EAT/0566/06 the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that a tribunal was wrong to imply into a contract a term that the employer could carry out a review of the probationary period within a reasonable time of the expiry of the probationary period.