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- Employment law cases
Tori O'Neil, Tessa Harland, Sarah Wade and Ed Gregory are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.
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- Date:
- 16 November 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Court of Appeal has held that there could be no remedy for part-time female workers who were prevented from joining an occupational pension scheme during particular periods because they would not have chosen to join the pension scheme even if they had been eligible to do so.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
The employer in this case got a review of its flexible working arrangements wrong by assuming that women's applications to retain their flexible working arrangements should be favoured over men's applications.
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- Employment law cases
An unfortunate situation arose for this small employer when a recruitment consultant was made redundant after she had informed it, just two weeks into her new job, that she was pregnant. She claimed sex discrimination and unfair dismissal after seeing an advert shortly after her redundancy stating that the company was seeking recruitment consultants.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
This case is an example of a common scenario for employers that operate in male-dominated environments: a challenge to the authority of a female manager by a group of male employees who are not used to being managed by a woman.
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- Employment law cases
This case is an example of an employer that needed to deal with the extremely difficult issue of having a disciplinary matter pending against a member of staff on maternity leave.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In this case, an Indian employee alleged that his employer had instructed him to adopt an anglicised alias at work.
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- Date:
- 7 June 2011
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- Employment law cases
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.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
This Northern Ireland industrial tribunal decision is a succinct example of an employer discriminating against a female employee with childcare responsibilities by having inflexible working hours.
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- Date:
- 1 May 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Martin v Devonshires Solicitors EAT/0086/10, the EAT held that, where an employer dismisses an employee in response to his or her protected act, the employer may not have unlawfully victimised the employee where the reason for the dismissal was some feature of the protected act that can be treated as separable.