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  Rigby v Ferodo Ltd [1987] IRLR 516 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Lords uphold claim for full loss

    Date:

    17 November 1987

    In Rigby v Ferodo Ltd the House of Lords confirms that employees whose wages are reduced without their consent are entitled to claim the full amount of their continuing loss, and are not limited to a claim for the loss suffered during their notice period.

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  RJ Dedman v British Building and Engineering Appliances Ltd [1973] IRLR 379 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • RJ Dedman v British Building and Engineering Appliances Ltd

    Date:

    1 December 1973

    In RJ Dedman v British Building and Engineering Appliances Ltd [1973] IRLR 379 CA, the Court of Appeal held that an employee's time limit for presenting his unfair dismissal claim had expired. He knew his rights and was being advised by solicitors well before the expiry of the time limit.

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  RMT v Serco Ltd t/a Serco Docklands; ASLEF v London & Birmingham Railway Ltd t/a London Midland [2011] EWCA Civ 226 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Minor accidental infringements do not invalidate union ballots

    Date:

    7 March 2011

    The Court of Appeal has overturned two High Court injunctions preventing trade unions ASLEF and the RMT from striking. 

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  Robb v London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham [1991] IRLR 72 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Robb v London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham

    Date:

    1 February 1991

    In Robb v London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham [1991] IRLR 72 HC, the High Court granted an interlocutory injunction restraining the council from giving effect to the purported summary dismissal of its director of finance on disciplinary grounds - and requiring it to treat him as suspended on full pay - unless and until it had properly complied with the disciplinary procedure incorporated into his contract of employment.

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  Roberts v Governing Body of Whitecross School EAT/0070/12 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Constructive dismissal: employer's "settled intention" to halve employee's sick pay was fundamental breach of contract

    Date:

    14 August 2012

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employer was in fundamental breach of contract when it indicated to an employee on long-term sick leave its settled intention to reduce his sick pay by 50%, which was in breach of a collective agreement. 

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  Roberts v Nolene Ltd and others [1994] IT/59688/93 (1 report relating to this case)

  • European Commission Code followed

    Date:

    1 June 1994

    The standards set out in the European Commission Code of Practice on measures to combat sexual harassment at work are now regularly used by industrial tribunals, as Felstead v Dennis's Coaches and others, Roberts v Nolene Ltd and others, and Shaw v Northern Ireland Hospice and another illustrate.

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  Roberts v Skelmersdale College [2004] IRLR 69 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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  Robertson and Jackson v British Gas Corporation [1983] IRLR 302 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Contracts unaffected by employers' termination of collective agreement

    Date:

    28 June 1983

    Where the terms of a collective agreement are incorporated into employees' contracts of employment, they may be varied from time to time by agreement between the trade unions and the employers, so that the individual contracts are also varied. But, says the Court of Appeal in Robertson and Jackson v British Gas Corporation, if the collective agreement is terminated by the unilateral withdrawal or its terms varied by unilateral action to which the other side does not agree, the individual contracts remain unaffected.

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  Robertson and others v Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [2005] IRLR 363 CA (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: 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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  Robertson v Bexley Community Centre t/a Leisure Link [2003] IRLR 434 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure: part 1

    Date:

    5 March 2004

    A review of recent significant cases on practice and procedure in the employment tribunals and the EAT.