Pay and benefits

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• Date:

  8 November 2007

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Bloxham v Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

  In Bloxham v Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer [2007] ET/2205086/06, an employment tribunal has held that changes to a law firm's pension scheme that discriminated on the grounds of age were justified.

• Date:

  29 October 2007

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Equal pay: Employees may rely on comparators rated lower under a job evaluation study

  The Court of Appeal ruled in Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council v Bainbridge and others [2007] EWCA Civ 929 that a woman claiming equal pay may rely on a job evaluation study even where the woman's job has been assigned a higher value than that of her comparator.

• Date:

  4 September 2007

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Variation of contract terms: The variation of a car allowance scheme should have been accompanied by transitional protection

  In Wetherill & Ors v Birmingham City Council [2007] EWCA Civ 599 the Court of Appeal held that a local authority was entitled to vary a car allowance scheme unilaterally, but was in breach of contract by failing to provide adequate transitional protection for affected employees.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case of the week: Unlawful deductions from wages

  This week's case of the week, provided by Addleshaw Goddard, covers unlawful deductions from wages.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case of the week: Banking on the bonus doesn't pay

  This week's case of the week, provided by Addleshaw Goddard, covers discretionary bonuses.

• Date:

  27 June 2007

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Equal pay: Job evaluation scheme did not have retrospective effect

  In 1) Bainbridge & Ors 2) Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council v 1) Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council 2) Williams EAT/0424/06 & EAT/0031/07 the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that successful equal pay claims confer the right to up to six years' back pay prior to the institution of proceedings.

• Date:

  1 June 2007

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Counselling services not a panacea for dealing with stress at work

  Where an employee is experiencing stress related to excessive workloads, the presence of a workplace counselling service will not automatically serve to discharge the employer's duty of care in stress claims.

• Date:

  17 April 2007

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Discretionary bonuses: Employer properly exercised discretion in making bonus payments

  In Commerzbank AG v Keen [2007] IRLR 132 CA the Court of Appeal held that an employer did not act in breach of the implied terms of a contract of employment in awarding to a highly paid employee lower bonuses than those recommended by his manager. Further, the terms of employment contracts are not covered by the provisions of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977.

• Date:

  11 April 2007

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  James v Redcats (Brands) Ltd

  In James v Redcats (Brands) Ltd [2007] IRLR 296 EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has given guidance on the definition of a worker under the national minimum wage legislation.

• Date:

  2 March 2007

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Equal pay: case law update

  This article looks at some of the significant judgments in the area of equal pay over the past year and their implications.