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  Ratcliffe and others v North Yorkshire County Council [1995] IRLR 439 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: Competitive tendering did not excuse pay-cut

    Date:

    1 August 1995

    In Ratcliffe and others v North Yorkshire County Council the House of Lords upholds a finding that women school catering assistants were entitled to receive the same rate of pay as their male comparators employed by the council on work rated as equivalent.

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  Ravat v Halliburton Manufacturing and Services Ltd [2012] IRLR 315 SC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Supreme Court rules on correct test for whether or not employees who work overseas can claim unfair dismissal

    Date:

    16 February 2012

    The Supreme Court has held that, in deciding whether or not an employee who works overseas can claim unfair dismissal, the test is whether or not the connection between Great Britain and the employment is sufficiently strong to overcome the general rule that the place of employment is decisive. 

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  Rayment v Ministry of Defence [2010] IRLR 768 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Rayment v Ministry of Defence

    Date:

    10 March 2010

    The High Court has awarded damages for injury and distress under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.

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  RCO Support Services and another v Unison and others [2002] IRLR 401 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Transfer of undertakings: TUPE Regulations may apply without a transfer of employees

    Date:

    23 September 2002

    In RCO Support Services and another v Unison and others, the Court of Appeal upholds a decision of an employment tribunal that there were relevant transfers of undertakings within the meaning of the TUPE Regulations in the form of labour-intensive cleaning and catering support activities, respectively, despite the fact that almost none of the workforce was taken on by the transferee.

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  Ready Mixed Concrete (South East) Ltd v Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance [1968] 1 All ER 433 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Ready Mixed Concrete (South East) Ltd v Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance

    Date:

    31 December 1968

    In Ready Mixed Concrete (South East) Ltd v Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance [1968] 1 All ER 433 HC, the High Court held that a contract of service existed if three conditions were fulfilled, one of these being that the provisions of the contract should not be inconsistent with its being a contract of service. In this case the rights conferred and the duties imposed by the individual's contract with the company were not such as to make the contract one of service.

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  Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council v Bainbridge and Equality and Human Rights Commission and other appeals [2008] IRLR 776 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: Pay protection scheme not objectively justified

    Date:

    13 October 2008

    In Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council v Bainbridge and Equality and Human Rights Commission and other appeals [2008] IRLR 776, the Court of Appeal held that a transitional pay protection scheme that, in effect, preserved the previous (unlawful) pay levels of men, while failing to offer equivalent higher pay to women engaged on work rated as equivalent, perpetuated historic indirect sex discrimination and was not objectively justified.

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  Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council v Bainbridge and others (No.1) [2007] IRLR 984 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: Employees may rely on comparators rated lower under a job evaluation study

    Date:

    29 October 2007

    The Court of Appeal ruled in Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council v Bainbridge and others [2007] EWCA Civ 929 that a woman claiming equal pay may rely on a job evaluation study even where the woman's job has been assigned a higher value than that of her comparator.

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  Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council v Bainbridge and others [2007] IRLR 91 EAT (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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  Redfearn v Serco Ltd t/a West Yorkshire Transport Service [2006] IRLR 623 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Race discrimination: Dismissal of BNP councillor was not 'on racial grounds'

    Date:

    21 July 2006

    In Serco Ltd v Redfearn [2006] EWCA Civ 659 CA, the Court of Appeal holds that an employer did not discriminate on grounds of race when it dismissed an employee because of fears that his membership of the BNP would lead to hostility, jeopardising the health and safety of staff and customers.

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  Redfearn v United Kingdom [2013] IRLR 51 ECHR (1 report relating to this case)

  • ECHR criticises UK employment legislation's failure to cover dismissals for "political opinion"

    Date:

    8 November 2012

    The European Court of Human Rights has said that it was a breach of a BNP member's human rights for him not to have the opportunity to claim unfair dismissal on the basis that he was sacked for his "political opinion". He did not have the required one year's service in force at the time to bring a claim.