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  • 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.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case of the week: Protective awards for collective redundancies

    This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers protective awards for collective redundancies.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Claire Benson is managing associate and Helen Corbett, Sinead Jones, Helen Ward and Tori O'Neil are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    7 June 2011
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    "Indivisible damage" to claimant must be compensated on joint and several liability basis

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, where there are multiple respondents and particular loss cannot be attributed to one party, employment tribunals must award compensation on a joint and several liability basis, meaning that the claimant can claim the entire amount from any respondent. 

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Claire Benson is managing associate and Helen Corbett, Sinead Jones, Helen Ward and Tori O'Neil are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    16 May 2011
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Employment tribunal wrong to assess compensation on basis of rest of claimant's working life

    The Court of Appeal has held that the employment tribunal was wrong to assess compensation for a banker who was unfairly dismissed and suffered race discrimination on the basis that he would be unlikely to find an equivalent job again. 

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    £19,000 for bus driver's summary dismissal for running service early

    An adequate investigation and a fair system of warnings are key to the successful defence of an unfair dismissal claim related to misconduct, as this case shows.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Rebekah Martin, Carly Mather, Kate Edminson and James Buckley, all associates at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    31 January 2011
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    TUPE: Transferor failed to consult or provide information to employee representatives

    In Todd v Strain and others [2011] IRLR 11 EAT, the EAT held that the duty to give employee representatives information about a forthcoming transfer applies even where there are no measures being proposed that give rise to a duty to consult the representatives. Informing individual employees rather than representatives did not amount to compliance with the information requirements, but should have led the tribunal to award less than the maximum compensation of 13 weeks' pay.