Employment disputes

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• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Court of Appeal upholds EAT decision that "indivisible damage" is not attributable to one party

  The Court of Appeal has upheld a decision by the Employment Appeal Tribunal that, where there are multiple respondents and particular loss cannot be attributed to one party, employment tribunals must award compensation on a joint and several liability basis, meaning that the claimant can claim the entire amount from any respondent. 

• Date:

  23 January 2013

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Acas code of practice: Uplift to compensation for failure to follow code not available to workers

  In Local Government Yorkshire and Humber v Shah EAT/0587/11 & EAT/0026/12, the EAT held that the potential uplift in compensation awarded where an employer unreasonably fails to comply with the "Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures" applies only in the case of employees. A worker who was subjected to an unlawful detriment was not entitled to an uplift.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case of the week: Continuity of employment

  This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers continuity of employment when an employee is dismissed, but re-employed almost immediately by the same company.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case of the week: Oral assurances during contract negotiations trumped written terms

  This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers whether or not oral assurances given during negotiations that took place before a contract was signed trumped the written contractual terms.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Georgina Kyriacou and David Malamentenios are partners and Melissa Powys-Rogrigues, Sandra Martins, Colin Makin and Krishna Santra are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Carly Mather, Lydia Newman and Amy Ross-Sercombe are associates and Amanda Steadman is a professional support lawyer at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  24 October 2012

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Civil courts retain discretion on striking out equal pay claims time-barred in employment tribunals

  The Supreme Court has held that civil courts should retain their discretion when deciding whether or not to strike out equal pay claims that are time-barred from being heard in the employment tribunal. 

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Georgina Kyriacou and David Malamentenios are partners and Sandra Martins, Colin Makin and Krishna Santra are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Sarah Wade, Rosie Kight, Amy Ross-Sercombe, Kate Edminson and Lydia Newman are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Acas conciliation: employer's email to claimant questioning her ability ever to gain promotion was victimisation

  The employment tribunal in this case took the unusual decision that the employer victimised the claimant when it allowed an Acas conciliation officer to forward her an email questioning her abilities and suggesting that she would never be promoted because of weaknesses in her literacy skills.