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  • Date:
    1 May 1990
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Prestwick Circuits Ltd v McAndrew

    In Prestwick Circuits Ltd v McAndrew [1990] IRLR 191 CS, the Court of Session held that the implied right to order a transfer from one place of employment to another must be subject to the implied qualification that reasonable notice must be given in all the circumstances of the case.

  • Date:
    21 November 1989
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Unfair dismissal: No reference to governors on college redundancies

    It was not unfair for a local education authority to dismiss three lecturers for redundancy without reference to their college's governors, even though their lecturers' contracts of employment contemplated that the governors would decide whether to dismiss.

  • Date:
    5 August 1986
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Contracts of employment: Incorporation into employment contracts

    Many collective agreements state that they are to be "binding in honour only". In Marley v Forward Trust Group Ltd the Court of Appeal holds that this applies between the parties to the agreement, ie the union and employer, and does not affect the legal enforceability of terms of collective agreements which are incorporated into contracts of employment of individuals.

  • Date:
    1 October 1985
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Transport & General Workers' Union v Ledbury Preserves (1928) Ltd

    In Transport & General Workers' Union v Ledbury Preserves (1928) Ltd [1985] IRLR 412 EAT, the EAT held that in a potential redundancy situation there must be "sufficient meaningful" consultation before notices of dismissal are sent out.

  • Date:
    31 December 1981
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Ross v Delrosa Caterers Ltd

    In Ross v Delrosa Caterers Ltd [1981] ICR 393 EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that, although continuity of employment is broken where a redundancy payment has been paid to an employee and the contract of employment is renewed or the employee re-engaged under a new contract, this is the case only if the redundancy payment is a statutory redundancy payment.

  • Date:
    1 March 1981
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Rowan v Machinery Installations (South Wales) Ltd

    In Rowan v Machinery Installations (South Wales) Ltd [1981] IRLR 122 EAT, the EAT held that the Industrial Tribunal had erred in finding that the appellant's period of continuous employment had been broken when his contract of employment had been terminated by the respondents and he was paid an amount calculated in accordance with the statutory redundancy payment provisions, in circumstances in which there was no liability on the respondents to make a redundancy payment.

  • Date:
    1 August 1978
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    The Bakers' Union v Clarks of Hove Ltd

    In The Bakers' Union v Clarks of Hove Ltd [1978] IRLR 366 CA, the Court of Appeal held that the EAT had incorrectly set aside the finding by the Industrial Tribunal that the employers' insolvency was not a special circumstance rendering it not reasonably practicable for them to comply with the redundancy consultation provisions of the Employment Protection Act, section 99.

  • Date:
    1 April 1978
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Transport & General Workers' Union v Nationwide Haulage Ltd

    In Transport & General Workers' Union v Nationwide Haulage Ltd [1978] IRLR 143 IT, the Industrial Tribunal held that the two sets of redundancies were not aggregated since there was no evidence that at the time of making the first set of redundancies there was an intention to follow them shortly with the second set.