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- Date:
- 19 September 2003
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Glendale Managed Services v Graham and others the Court of Appeal holds that a transferee employer of a local authority undertaking was under a contractual obligation to increase an employee's pay in accordance with nationally agreed rates.
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- Date:
- 30 December 2002
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Henry and others v London General Transport Services Ltd, the Court of Appeal holds that, whereas clear evidence is required that a custom and practice has been incorporated into individual contracts of employment by virtue of the collective bargaining between an employer and the recognised trade union, such a custom and practice, once established, can be expected to cover all contractual terms.
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- Date:
- 7 October 2002
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Harris v Richard Lawson Autologistics Ltd, the Court of Appeal holds that a shop steward had apparent or ostensible authority to negotiate an agreement on holiday pay on behalf of TGWU members he represented, notwithstanding that, on the assumed facts of the case, the agreement was not put to the members, and was concluded in contravention of TGWU standing instructions.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
This week's case roundup, covering unfair dismissal and redundancy procedures laid down in collective agreements.
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Date:
- 15 March 2001
- Type:
- Employment law cases
An employment tribunal erred in ruling that employees who protested to their employer, by way of petition, against new terms and conditions of employment collectively agreed between the employer and the recognised trade union had not accepted those terms, holds the EAT in London General Transport Services Ltd v Henry and others.
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- Date:
- 15 December 1996
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Christian Salvesen Food Services Ltd v Ali and others, the Court of Appeal considers an "annualised hours" contract, deriving from a collective agreement, under which employees were paid a standard wage for a notional 40-hour week, but overtime became payable only after 1,824 hours had been worked in a 12-month period.
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- Date:
- 1 September 1995
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Ali and others v Christian Salvesen Food Services plc the EAT holds that a contract of employment, which provided that overtime payments would be made only when the employee had worked more than the annualised hours total of 1,824 hours in the working year, contained an implied term entitling the employee, whose employment terminated several months before the end of the working year, to overtime payments in certain circumstances.
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- Date:
- 1 November 1992
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In London Ambulance Service v Charlton and others [1992] IRLR 510 EAT, the EAT held that the Industrial Tribunal had not erred in law in holding that the respondent union officials had met the requirements for paid time off under the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act, section 27(1)(a) in respect of their attendance at a meeting of a committee set up by the union to coordinate the activities of its district committees within the London Ambulance Service.