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  • Type:
    Legal timetable

    Firefighters' Pension (Wales) Scheme (Amendment) Order 2009 comes into force

    The Order amends the Firefighters' Pension (Wales) Scheme.

  • Type:
    Contract clauses

    Overtime contract clause

    A model contract clause to set out terms relating to overtime.

  • Date:
    27 April 2009
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Contracts of employment: Tribunal erred in not determining to which aspect of a bonus scheme the employer's discretion attached

    In Small and others v Boots Co and another [2009] All ER (D) 200 (Jan) EAT, the EAT held that the fact that the employer had stated that a bonus was discretionary did not necessarily mean that it had no contractual effect. The employer's discretion could relate to: whether or not to operate a bonus system at all; whether or not to award a bonus in a given year; or the amount of bonus to be awarded.

  • Date:
    19 January 2009
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Lucy and others v British Airways plc

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employment tribunal did not have jurisdiction to hear claims against British Airways for non-payment of flying allowances to cabin crew who had not been able to fly because of an airport closure.

  • Date:
    12 November 2008
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Blackburn and another v Chief Constable of West Midlands Police

    The Court of Appeal has held that paying bonuses to employees who worked night shifts did not constitute sex discrimination.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case of the week: Working time

    This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers working time.

  • Date:
    13 October 2008
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Equal pay: Pay protection scheme not objectively justified

    In Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council v Bainbridge and Equality and Human Rights Commission and other appeals [2008] IRLR 776, the Court of Appeal held that a transitional pay protection scheme that, in effect, preserved the previous (unlawful) pay levels of men, while failing to offer equivalent higher pay to women engaged on work rated as equivalent, perpetuated historic indirect sex discrimination and was not objectively justified.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case of the week: Equal pay claims

    This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers equal pay claims.

  • Type:
    Contract clauses

    Relocation expenses repayment agreement

    A model agreement to obtain an employee's permission to reclaim relocation expenses in the event that their employment is terminated within a certain period.

  • Date:
    17 July 2008
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Burrow Down Support Services Ltd v Rossiter

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld an employment tribunal decision that an employee who was allowed to sleep for much of his shift, but had to deal with anything untoward that might arise, was entitled to be paid the national minimum wage for the whole shift.

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