Employment law cases

All items: Employment disputes

  • Case of the week: Injunctions to restrain disciplinary action

    This week's case of the week, provided by Watson Burton, covers injunctions to restrain disciplinary action.

  • EC Directive not properly implemented

    Date:
    1 April 2007

    The High Court has found that the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, as amended, does not give full effect to the revised EC Equal Treatment Directive, in Equal Opportunities Commission v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (12 March 2007).

  • 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.

  • Unfair dismissal compensation: Norton Tool not general authority for awarding more than actual loss

    Date:
    16 February 2007

    In Burlo v Langley and another [2006] EWCA Civ 1778 the Court of Appeal holds that an employee's compensation for lack of notice was restricted to her actual loss where she would have been in receipt of statutory sick pay during the notice period.

  • Points of procedure round-up

    Date:
    16 February 2007

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

  • Metrobus Ltd v Cook

    Date:
    14 February 2007

    In Metrobus Ltd v Cook EAT/0490/06, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that an employment tribunal did not err in increasing the amount of unfair dismissal compensation by 40% where an employer had failed to follow the statutory disciplinary and dismissal procedure.

  • Scope v Thornett

    Date:
    1 December 2006

    In Scope v Thornett [2007] IRLR 155 CA, the Court of Appeal has stressed that employment tribunals are permitted to make reductions in the amount of compensation awarded for future loss of earnings where this involves speculation.

  • Wrongful dismissal: Attempt to recover remainder of wrongful dismissal losses in High Court fails

    Date:
    1 December 2006

    In Fraser v HLMAD Ltd [2006] IRLR 687 CA, the Court of Appeal holds that claimants who bring claims for wrongful dismissal in the employment tribunal, where a statutory limit on damages of £25,000 applies, cannot recover losses in excess of this limit in the High Court.

  • Employment tribunal jurisdiction: 'Strong connections' with Great Britain give tribunal jurisdiction

    Date:
    17 November 2006

    In Lawson v Serco Ltd; Botham v Ministry of Defence; Crofts and others v Veta Ltd and others [2006] IRLR 289 HL, the House of Lords holds that employees will be entitled to claim unfair dismissal if working or based in Great Britain at the time of the dismissal. An employee posted abroad but retaining a strong connection with Great Britain may also be able to bring a claim.

  • Statutory dismissal and disciplinary procedures: Procedural unfairness and redundancy dismissals

    Date:
    3 November 2006

    In Alexander and another v Bridgen Enterprises Ltd [2006] IRLR 422 EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal holds that two employees were automatically unfairly dismissed in breach of the statutory dismissal procedure because the employer had not provided sufficient information about their selection for redundancy in advance of the dismissal meeting.

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