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  Weddell v Breeze Benton Solicitors [2004] All ER (D) 225 (Jul) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure

    Date:

    26 November 2004

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

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  Wells v West Hertfordshire Health Authority (2000) Current Law 2000/2982 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Wells v West Hertfordshire Health Authority

    Date:

    31 December 2000

    In Wells v West Hertfordshire Health Authority (2000) Current Law 2000/2982, it was ruled that, when informed by an employee of a back problem and medical advice that she should avoid demanding physical work, the employer should have carried out a risk assessment of the employee's tasks and in particular the employee's ability to perform them given her medical condition.

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  Wenham v Bexley 1999 10 CL 388 CC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Wenham v Bexley

    Date:

    31 December 1999

    In Wenham v Bexley 1999 10 CL 388 CC, a county court held that kitchens are places where floors are likely to get wet and accordingly these should be kept dry to avoid breaches of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992.

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  Werhof v Freeway Traffic Systems GmbH & Co KG [2006] IRLR 400 ECJ (1 report 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.

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  West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive v Singh [1988] IRLR 186 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Discrimination: Past conduct relevant to discrimination complaint

    Date:

    19 July 1988

    Two recent appellate decisions have confirmed that evidence of the employers' past discriminatory actions or attitudes may be relevant in determining whether they have discriminated in the case under consideration.

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  Western Excavating (ECC) Ltd v Sharp [1978] IRLR 27 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Constructive dismissal: Correct test is based on law of contract

    Date:

    25 January 1978

    In Western Excavating (ECC) Ltd v Sharp, the Court of Appeal lays down the rule that in order to be able to resign and claim constructive dismissal within the meaning of para. 5(2)(c) of Schedule 1 to the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act, an employee must be able to show that the employer's conduct amounted to a significant breach of a fundamental term of the contract of employment or indicated that the employer no longer intended to be bound by the contract.

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  Wetstein v (1) Misprestige Management Services Ltd (2) O'Farrell EAT/523/91 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Wetstein v (1) Misprestige Management Services Ltd (2) O'Farrell

    Date:

    31 December 1991

    In Wetstein v (1) Misprestige Management Services Ltd (2) O'Farrell EAT/523/91, the Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld a tribunal's finding that a requirement to work a full week did not constitute indirect race discrimination against those of the Jewish race.

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  Whitbread Beer Company v Williams and others EAT/160/94 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Misconduct: Dismissal of abusive employees was fair

    Date:

    1 November 1995

    An employer's decision to dismiss three employees who became drunk, abusive and violent after a seminar aimed at improving their "behavioural skills" was manifestly reasonable, holds the EAT in Whitbread Beer Company v Williams and others.

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  Whitbread plc (t/a Whitbread Medway Inns) v Hall [2001] IRLR 275 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Misconduct: Band of reasonable responses test applicable to procedure as well as outcome

    Date:

    15 April 2001

    In a case where misconduct is admitted by the employee, the requirement of reasonableness in s.98(4) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 relates not only to the outcome in terms of the penalty imposed by the employer, but also to the process by which the employer arrived at that decision, holds the Court of Appeal in Whitbread plc (trading as Whitbread Medway Inns) v Hall.

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  White v Reflecting Roadstuds Ltd [1991] IRLR 331 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Implied terms depend on necessity not reasonableness

    Date:

    18 October 1991

    The EAT emphasises in White v Reflecting Roadstuds Ltd that a restriction on an employer's powers under a flexibility clause should be implied only if it is necessary to make the contract workable, not merely because it would be reasonable to imply such a term.