Employment disputes

New and updated

• Date:

  17 April 2007

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Protective awards: A protective award for failure to consult a recognised trade union does not extend to cover employees in respect of whom the trade union is not recognised

  In Transport & General Workers' Union v Brauer Coley Ltd (in administration) [2007] IRLR 207 EAT the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that where a trade union is successful in proceedings brought for failure to consult on collective redundancies, the protective award cannot be claimed by any employees in respect of whom the trade union was not recognised by the employer.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  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.

• Date:

  1 April 2007

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  EC Directive not properly implemented

  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).

• Date:

  2 March 2007

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Equal pay: case law update

  This article looks at some of the significant judgments in the area of equal pay over the past year and their implications.

• Date:

  16 February 2007

  Type:

  Employment law cases

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

  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.

• Date:

  16 February 2007

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Points of procedure round-up

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

• Date:

  14 February 2007

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Metrobus Ltd v Cook

  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.

• Date:

  1 December 2006

  Type:

  Employment law cases

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

  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.

• Date:

  1 December 2006

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Scope v Thornett

  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.

• Date:

  17 November 2006

  Type:

  Employment law cases

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

  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.