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  • Date:
    22 May 2013
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    TUPE consultation: EAT provides guidance on protective awards for technical breaches

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has provided guidance on how tribunals should assess protective awards where an employer has breached its obligation to inform and consult on a TUPE transfer.

  • Date:
    10 April 2013
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Discrimination: EAT provides guidance on injury to feelings awards and aggravated damages

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has provided guidance on remedies for discrimination claims, including injury to feelings and aggravated damages.

  • Date:
    10 April 2013
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case of the week: EAT considers school assistant's whistleblowing claim

    This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, concerns a school assistant who claimed that she was dismissed for whistleblowing after she went to the press over her treatment for telling parents that their child had been bullied.

  • Date:
    1 March 2013
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    David Malamatenios is a partner and Colin Makin, Sandra Martins, Melissa Powys- Rodrigues and Linda Quinn are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    31 January 2013
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Court of Appeal upholds EAT decision that "indivisible damage" is not attributable to one party

    The Court of Appeal has upheld a decision by the Employment Appeal Tribunal 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. 

  • Date:
    23 January 2013
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Acas code of practice: Uplift to compensation for failure to follow code not available to workers

    In Local Government Yorkshire and Humber v Shah EAT/0587/11 & EAT/0026/12, the EAT held that the potential uplift in compensation awarded where an employer unreasonably fails to comply with the "Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures" applies only in the case of employees. A worker who was subjected to an unlawful detriment was not entitled to an uplift.

  • Date:
    1 November 2012
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Carly Mather, Lydia Newman and Amy Ross-Sercombe are associates and Amanda Steadman is a professional support lawyer at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    1 October 2012
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Georgina Kyriacou and David Malamentenios are partners and Sandra Martins, Colin Makin and Krishna Santra are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    13 June 2012
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Tribunal recommends maternity rights training in company where employee given work two days after giving birth

    This is a rare example, along with Crisp v Iceland Foods Ltd ET/1604478/11 & ET/1600000/12, of an employment tribunal making wide-ranging recommendations to an employer, in this case suggesting that it provide training for its managers and HR team on maternity rights.

  • Date:
    31 May 2012
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    National minimum wage: car dealership ordered to pay £35,000 over car-leasing salary-sacrifice scheme

    A large employer has been fined £5,000 by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and ordered to repay over £30,000 in wages to 40 workers who were underpaid, in a stark reminder to employers to beware of making deductions from wages for a benefit that takes pay below the national minimum wage.