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- Date:
- 1 September 1998
- Type:
- Employment law cases
A compromise to settle an employee's claim for compensation for unfair dismissal, reached during the employment tribunal proceedings and recorded by the tribunal in a document headed "Decision of the [employment] tribunal", did not prevent the employee from subsequently bringing proceedings in the county court for unpaid wages, holds the Court of Appeal in Dattani v Trio Supermarkets Ltd.
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- Date:
- 15 August 1998
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Robertson v Blackstone Franks Investment Management Ltd, the Court of Appeal holds that an investment consultant suffered unlawful deductions from his wages when commission earned in respect of work done before his contract was terminated, but payable after termination, was not paid.
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- Date:
- 1 October 1996
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The posting in a factory of a notice which stated that accrued holiday pay would not be given to employees dismissed for gross misconduct did not amount to the requisite written notification to the workers of a contractual term authorising a deduction from their wages, holds the EAT in (1) Kerr v The Sweater Shop (Scotland) Ltd (2) The Sweater Shop (Scotland) Ltd v Park.
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- Date:
- 1 October 1996
- Type:
- Employment law cases
An employer was contractually entitled to make changes to an incentive bonus scheme without the consent of employees individually or their trade union representatives, holds the EAT in Airlie and others v City of Edinburgh District Council.
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- Date:
- 15 November 1993
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Where employees argue that they have not received the full pay to which they are entitled and that this amounts to an unlawful deduction under the Wages Act, the industrial tribunal must first determine any dispute about what wages are properly payable under the contract, the EAT confirms in Yemm and others v British Steel plc.
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- Date:
- 1 July 1993
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Discount Tobacco & Confectionery Ltd v Williamson [1993] IRLR 327 EAT, the EAT upheld an employment tribunal's decision that in order for a deduction to be lawful, it is not sufficient that the employee gives written consent before the deduction is made. The employee's written agreement must have been given before the conduct or event giving rise to the deduction.
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- Date:
- 1 January 1993
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Pepper (HM Inspector of Taxes) v Hart and others [1993] IRLR 33 HL, the House of Lords held that in-house benefits, and particularly concessionary school fees for teachers' children, should be assessed for tax on the basis of the additional or marginal cost to the employer of providing the benefit.
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- Date:
- 1 January 1993
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Fairfield Ltd v Skinner [1993] IRLR 4 EAT, the EAT held that there must be justification for making a deduction from wages, even when authority has been given in the contract.
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- Date:
- 15 March 1992
- Type:
- Employment law cases
An agreement under which an employee was liable to repay a proportion of a training course fee to his employer if his employment terminated within a certain period did not specifically authorise repayment by way of a deduction from wages, holds the EAT in Potter v Hunt Contracts Ltd.
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- Date:
- 8 March 1991
- Type:
- Employment law cases
An employer's right to require overtime from an employee who is under a contractual obligation to be "on call" for a specified number of hours in excess of his basic working week, is subject to the employer's implied duty to take reasonable care not to injure its employee's health, holds the Court of Appeal in Johnstone v Bloomsbury Health Authority.