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  W Devis & Sons Ltd v RA Atkins [1977] IRLR 314 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal: Evidence discovered after dismissal

    Date:

    1 September 1977

    In Devis & Sons v Atkins, the House of Lords rules that whether a dismissal is unfair must be judged according to the facts which the employer knew or should have known at the time the decision to dismiss was taken.

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  WA Goold (Pearmak) Ltd v McConnell and another [1995] IRLR 516 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Failure to provide grievance procedure is breach of contract

    Date:

    1 December 1995

    It is an implied term of every employee's contract of employment that their employer will reasonably and promptly afford them a reasonable opportunity to obtain redress of any grievance they may have, holds the EAT in WA Goold (Pearmak) Ltd v McConnell and another.

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  Wade v North Yorkshire Police Authority and another [2011] IRLR 393 FTC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Expectant mothers can choose to start SMP later than they cease work

    Date:

    7 February 2011

    The Tax and Chancery Chamber of the Upper Tribunal has held that expectant mothers can choose to start their statutory maternity pay (SMP) at a later date than the date when they cease work.

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  Wain & Ors v Guernsey Ship Management Ltd [2007] EWCA Civ 294 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • TUPE case law update

    Date:

    27 February 2008

    This article looks at some of the important judgments in the area of the transfer of undertakings over the past year.

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  Walker v Sita Information Networking Computing Ltd EAT/0097/12 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: obese individual suffering from multiple symptoms disabled

    Date:

    26 March 2013

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has considered whether or not an obese individual who suffered from multiple symptoms was disabled for the purposes of disability discrimination legislation.

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  Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery NHS Trust v Bewley [2008] IRLR 588 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: Claimant cannot rely on hypothetical comparator

    Date:

    28 July 2008

    In Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery NHS Trust v Bewley [2008] IRLR 588, the EAT held that the decision in Diocese of Hallam Trustee v Connaughton was fundamentally flawed and should not be followed.

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  Walton v Airtours plc and Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada [2003] IRLR 161 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Employee was entitled to long-term incapacity benefit

    Date:

    21 February 2003

    In Walton v Airtours plc and another, the Court of Appeal holds that an airline pilot who was unable to continue with his job after becoming ill with chronic fatigue syndrome, but was fit to undertake light part-time work with rehabilitation and a programme of support, remained entitled to benefits under the employer's PHI scheme, notwithstanding that those benefits were payable in the long term only if the employee was unable to "follow any occupation".

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  Waltons & Morse v Dorrington [1997] IRLR 488 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Implied duty to provide suitable working environment

    Date:

    15 October 1997

    An employer's failure to ban smoking in a poorly ventilated workplace, after it became clear that measures already introduced to resolve the problem of passive smoking were inadequate, was in repudiatory breach of an implied contractual term that it would provide and monitor for its employees, so far as reasonably practicable, a working environment which was reasonably suitable for the performance of their contractual duties, holds the EAT in Waltons & Morse v Dorrington.

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  Wandsworth London Borough Council v D'Silva and another [1998] IRLR 193 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Provisions of sickness absence code not contractually binding

    Date:

    15 July 1998

    In London Borough of Wandsworth v D'Silva and another, the Court of Appeal holds that provisions of a code of practice on sickness absence which an employer was seeking to amend unilaterally were not contractually binding on that employer.

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  Warby v Wunda Group plc EAT/0434/11 (1 report relating to this case)

  • EAT holds that "context is everything" in determining whether or not words complained of constitute discrimination

    Date:

    17 April 2012

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, in ascertaining whether or not words that reference a protected characteristic constitute unlawful discrimination, the conduct complained of must be seen in context.