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- Employment law cases
Compensation for a successful whistleblowing claim is unlimited, as the employer in this case found to its cost.
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- Employment law cases
Annabel Mackay and Adam Johnson, associates at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.
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- Employment law cases
Employers that indulge potentially discriminatory office "banter" may end up liable, as this case demonstrates.
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- Employment law cases
The Fair Employment Tribunal in Northern Ireland has found that a small business owner committed age discrimination against an employee after she refused to enter into a joint arrangement with him relating to the purchase of land.
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- Employment law cases
Ceri Hughes, David Parry, and Carly Mather, associates at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.
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- Date:
- 22 July 2010
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- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, in the context of costs applications, it is unreasonable behaviour for a claimant to pursue an unfair dismissal claim purely for the purpose of obtaining a declaration that he or she was unfairly dismissed.
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- Date:
- 24 June 2010
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- Employment law cases
The Court of Appeal has handed down its full judgment overturning an injunction preventing British Airways cabin crew from striking.
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- Date:
- 21 June 2010
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the date of a conditional resignation cannot constitute the effective date of termination regardless of any agreement between the employer and employee.
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- Date:
- 14 June 2010
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Shanahan Engineering v Unite the Union EAT/0411/09, the EAT held that an employment tribunal was right to find that, in relation to collective redundancy consultation, although a customer's instruction amounted to "special circumstances", absolving the employer of the need to start consultation 30 days in advance of the first redundancy, it did not absolve it of all obligations to consult. However, the tribunal should have taken into account the special circumstances of the case in setting the level of the protective award.
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- FAQs