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• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Joanne Magill, associate, and Claire Benson and Ceri Hughes, managing associates, at Addleshaw Goddard detail the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Manager dismissed for sacking employee and recruiting replacement without authority

  In this unusual case, an employee was dismissed and offered reinstatement on appeal, before purportedly resigning due to the terms of the reinstatement.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Dental nurse was unfairly dismissed for asking to be paid on time

  This case involves an employee whose unfair dismissal was due to her asserting statutory rights regarding her pay.

• Type:

  FAQs

  How should employee share schemes deal with employees who leave due to retirement?

• Date:

  15 April 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Transfer of pay in lieu of notice terminated contract of employment

  The Court of Appeal has held that an employee's contract of employment was terminated by the transfer of pay in lieu of notice into his bank account, even though he did not know at the time that this had happened. 

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Aston Villa unfairly dismissed football historian who had supported club for 60 years

  In this case, a Premier League football club unfairly sacked its football historian, who had supported the club for over 60 years.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Managers' comments put undue pressure on underperforming older worker to retire early

  The employment tribunal in this case found that comments from two managers in capability meetings, suggesting that an underperforming older worker might consider early retirement, constituted age discrimination.

• Date:

  6 April 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Age discrimination: Clause in collective agreement providing for automatic termination of contracts of employees who have attained the retirement age justified

  In Rosenbladt v Oellerking Gebäudereinigungsges mbH [2011] IRLR 51 ECJ, the ECJ held that art.6(1) of the Equal Treatment Framework Directive does not necessarily preclude domestic legislation that permits the use of automatic termination clauses based on the retirement age, or the use of such clauses in collective agreements. The crucial issue is whether or not such measures are objectively justified.

• 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.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Employer wrong to rely on employee's "flippant" attitude during disciplinary hearing

  In this case, the employment tribunal held that an employer placed too much emphasis on an employee's "flippant" and "sarcastic" attitude during a disciplinary hearing and failed properly to consider the flaws in the evidence against him.