Employment disputes

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• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Race discrimination: former NHS worker awarded nearly £1m

  In this case, the employment tribunal awarded an NHS worker, who was dismissed from his senior position in the NHS, close to £1m for race discrimination, despite the tribunal's refusal to increase the award for future loss of earnings on the basis of the worker's argument that he might have been promoted before he retired.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Race and sex discrimination: former NHS doctor with post-traumatic stress disorder awarded almost £4.5m

  This employment tribunal has awarded a former NHS doctor one of the largest ever discrimination payouts after she was subjected to a sustained campaign of sex and race discrimination. The tribunal found the NHS trust and three senior managers, one of whom was the HR director, jointly and severally liable for compensation.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Tori O'Neil, Tessa Harland, Sarah Wade and Ed Gregory are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  8 November 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Tribunal jurisdiction: Teachers employed abroad by Government can bring unfair dismissal claims in Great Britain

  In Duncombe and others v Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families [2011] IRLR 498 SC, the Supreme Court held that the employment of teachers seconded to European Schools on successive fixed-term contracts was objectively justified. However, the teachers could bring unfair dismissal claims in Great Britain in respect of the non-renewal of those contracts, even though they worked wholly abroad.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Chris McAvoy, Cane Pickersgill, Tessa Harland, Sarah Wade and David Rintoul are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Sex discrimination: male train driver awarded £5,000 over flexible working withdrawal

  The employer in this case got a review of its flexible working arrangements wrong by assuming that women's applications to retain their flexible working arrangements should be favoured over men's applications.

• Date:

  24 August 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Resignation or dismissal: employment tribunal decisions

  This article summarises the main issues and outcomes in five employment tribunal cases where the key issue was whether the employee resigned or was dismissed.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case of the week: Protective awards under TUPE

  This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers protective awards under TUPE.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Reinstatement for installation engineer who caused damage after inadequate training

  This is a rare instance, along with the decision in Barlow v Ranc Care Homes Ltd ET/1101527/10, of an employment tribunal ordering an employer to reinstate an unfairly dismissed employee.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  £3,000 penalty for small employer that failed to follow flexible-working procedure

  In a decision that may appear harsh, the employment tribunal penalised the employer almost £3,000 for failing to follow the statutory right to request flexible working procedure to the letter, even though the managing director may have been distracted because he was dealing with possible redundancies at the same time.