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  • Date:
    24 October 2008
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Sex discrimination: Tribunal's territorial jurisdiction

    In Tradition Securities and Futures SA v X and another EAT/0202/08, the EAT held that, where an employee of a French company had worked in Paris for three years before transferring to the company's London office for two years, and complained of unlawful sex discrimination throughout all five years of her employment, the employment tribunal had jurisdiction to hear only the complaints about her alleged treatment in London.

  • Date:
    29 August 2008
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Collective redundancies: Employer company liable for post-liquidation protective award

    In Haine and another v Day [2008] IRLR 642, the Court of Appeal held that a protective award made after the employer company went into liquidation in respect of its failure to consult before making collective redundancies was a provable, and therefore potentially recoverable, debt.

  • Type:
    Quick reference

    Compensation - fixed-term employees

    A table summarising the compensation payable for breach of the requirements in relation to fixed-term employees.

  • Type:
    Quick reference

    Compensation - part-time workers

    A table summarising the compensation payable for claims of less favourable treatment on grounds of part-time working.

  • Date:
    11 June 2008
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Liability for damages: Employer liable for suicide of employee who suffered workplace injury

    In Corr (administratix of the estate of Thomas Corr (deceased)) v IBC Vehicles Ltd [2008] UKHL 13, the House of Lords held that the employer of a man who was injured at work and, as a consequence, suffered severe depression that led to suicide, was liable under the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 for loss attributable to his suicide.

  • Date:
    25 February 2008
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Collective redundancies: Protective award starts at 90 days' pay

    In Hutchins v Permacell Finesse Ltd (in administration) EAT/0350/07, the EAT held that the starting point for determining a protective award is 90 days' pay, even where fewer than 100 redundancies are involved and the minimum consultation period is 30 days.

  • Type:
    FAQs

    Must a person be authorised to represent a claimant at tribunal for reward?

  • Date:
    15 October 2007
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Information and consultation: Penalty imposed for serious breach

    Where the Central Arbitration Committee has found an employer to be in breach of certain obligations under the Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004, the EAT may order the employer to pay a financial penalty to the secretary of state. In the first case to arise on this point, Amicus v MacMillan Publishers Ltd EAT/0185/07, the EAT ordered the employer to pay £55,000 in respect of a "very grave" breach.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Judith Harris, professional support lawyer at Addleshaw Goddard, outlines the latest legal rulings.

  • 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.

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