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  • Date:
    1 February 2012
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Chris McAvoy, Sarah Wade, David Rintoul, Helen Corbett and Kristin Aarvik are associate solicitors at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    11 January 2012
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Race discrimination: former NHS worker awarded nearly £1m

    In this case, the employment tribunal awarded an NHS worker, who was dismissed from his senior position in the NHS, close to £1m for race discrimination, despite the tribunal's refusal to increase the award for future loss of earnings on the basis of the worker's argument that he might have been promoted before he retired.

  • Date:
    16 December 2011
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Race and sex discrimination: former NHS doctor with post-traumatic stress disorder awarded almost £4.5m

    This employment tribunal has awarded a former NHS doctor one of the largest ever discrimination payouts after she was subjected to a sustained campaign of sex and race discrimination. The tribunal found the NHS trust and three senior managers, one of whom was the HR director, jointly and severally liable for compensation.

  • Date:
    1 December 2011
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Tori O'Neil, Tessa Harland, Sarah Wade and Ed Gregory are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    8 November 2011
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Tribunal jurisdiction: Teachers employed abroad by Government can bring unfair dismissal claims in Great Britain

    In Duncombe and others v Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families [2011] IRLR 498 SC, the Supreme Court held that the employment of teachers seconded to European Schools on successive fixed-term contracts was objectively justified. However, the teachers could bring unfair dismissal claims in Great Britain in respect of the non-renewal of those contracts, even though they worked wholly abroad.

  • Date:
    1 November 2011
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Chris McAvoy, Cane Pickersgill, Tessa Harland, Sarah Wade and David Rintoul are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    19 October 2011
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Sex discrimination: male train driver awarded £5,000 over flexible working withdrawal

    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.

  • Type:
    Quick reference

    Compensation - suspension from work

    A table summarising the compensation payable for breaches of the suspension from work provisions.

  • Date:
    24 August 2011
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Resignation or dismissal: employment tribunal decisions

    This article summarises the main issues and outcomes in five employment tribunal cases where the key issue was whether the employee resigned or was dismissed.

  • Date:
    17 August 2011
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case of the week: Protective awards under TUPE

    This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers protective awards under TUPE.

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