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  Whitely v Marton Electrical Ltd [2003] IRLR 197 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Whitely v Marton Electrical Ltd

    Date:

    1 April 2004

    In Whitely v Marton Electrical Ltd [2003] IRLR 197 EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the dismissal of a modern apprentice before the completion of his training was a breach of contract.

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  Whitmore v Inland Revenue Commissioners [2003] All ER (D) 514 (Oct) EAT (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.

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  Wickers v Colchester Visionplus Ltd t/a Specsavers Opticians ET/3200619/2015 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Discrimination arising from disability: director's unsympathetic comments about mental illness

    Date:

    5 April 2016

    This tribunal decision concerned a director who made dismissive comments about an employee's medical condition instead of considering whether or not she had a disability. The tribunal found the employer had constructive knowledge of the claimant's disability and the comments were discrimination arising from her disability.

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  Wild v Portsmouth & SE Hants Health Authority [1994] IT/54032/93 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Time runs from 22.11.93

    Date:

    1 September 1994

    The time limit for bringing a complaint against a public sector employer in respect of discriminatory retirement did not begin to run until the date the Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay (Remedies) Regulations 1993 came into force, rules a Southampton industrial tribunal (Chair: I T Soulsby) in Wild v Portsmouth & SE Hants Health Authority.

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  Wilding v British Telecommunications plc [2002] IRLR 524 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Mitigation of loss: Refusing re-employment offer was a failure to mitigate loss

    Date:

    9 December 2002

    In Wilding v British Telecommunications plc, the Court of Appeal upholds a decision by an employment tribunal that, by refusing an offer of part-time re-employment, an employee who had been unfairly dismissed and discriminated against on the ground of his disability had thereby failed to mitigate his loss.

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  William Hill Organisation Ltd v Tucker [1998] IRLR 313 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: No implied right to send senior dealer on garden leave

    Date:

    1 July 1998

    In the absence of an express contractual term entitling a bookmaker to send the senior dealer in its spread-betting business on garden leave, it was under an obligation to allow him to perform the duties of the post to which it had appointed him in accordance with his contract both during his notice period and before he gave in his notice, holds the Court of Appeal in William Hill Organisation Ltd v Tucker.

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  Williams and others v British Airways plc [2011] IRLR 948 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • ECJ: British Airways pilots' holiday pay should include flying allowances

    Date:

    20 September 2011

    The European Court of Justice has considered whether or not "normal remuneration" during a period of annual leave should include allowances on top of basic pay, in the context of a dispute over how the holiday pay of British Airways pilots who are paid flying allowances as well as basic pay should be calculated. 

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  Williams and others v Compair Maxam Ltd [1982] IRLR 83 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Redundancy: Relevance of "Compair Maxam guidelines"

    Date:

    1 November 1996

    In Akzo Coatings plc v Thompson and others, the EAT holds that an industrial tribunal erred in law in applying the guidelines on redundancy selection in Williams and others v Compair Maxam Ltd to the way in which an employer dealt with the possibility of alternative employment for redundant employees.

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  Williams and others v Whitbread Beer Co 19 June 1996 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Misconduct: Drunken employees were unfairly dismissed

    Date:

    1 January 1997

    In Williams and others v Whitbread Beer Co the Court of Appeal restores the decision of an industrial tribunal that an employer unfairly dismissed three employees for drunken, abusive and violent behaviour in circumstances where the misconduct took place outside work and where it was the employer who had provided the opportunity for the employees to drink.

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  Williams v Ferrosan Ltd [2004] IRLR 607 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.