Employment tribunals and courts

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• 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.

• Date:

  18 January 2013

  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.

• Date:

  11 December 2012

  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.

• Date:

  1 December 2012

  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.

• Date:

  1 November 2012

  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. 

• Date:

  1 October 2012

  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.

• Date:

  1 September 2012

  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.

• Date:

  13 June 2012

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Tribunal recommends maternity rights training in company where employee given work two days after giving birth

  This is a rare example, along with Crisp v Iceland Foods Ltd ET/1604478/11 & ET/1600000/12, of an employment tribunal making wide-ranging recommendations to an employer, in this case suggesting that it provide training for its managers and HR team on maternity rights.

• Date:

  1 June 2012

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case of the week: EAT provides guidance on "organised grouping of employees" on service provision change

  This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers what constitutes an "organised grouping of employees" on a service provision change for TUPE purposes.