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  • Date:
    20 June 2007
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

    In Commission of the European Communities v United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Case C-127/05 ECJ, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has rejected a challenge to the use of the phrase 'so far as is reasonably practicable' in UK health and safety legislation.

  • Date:
    1 April 2007
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    EC Directive not properly implemented

    The High Court has found that the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, as amended, does not give full effect to the revised EC Equal Treatment Directive, in Equal Opportunities Commission v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (12 March 2007).

  • Date:
    22 September 2006
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Disability discrimination: European community law and the definition of 'disability'

    In Navas v Eurest Colectividades SA Case C-13/05, first case to come before it on the issue, the ECJ finds that "disability" within the Framework Directive is not to be equated with "sickness" and that discrimination solely on the grounds of sickness does not fall within the scope of the Directive.

  • Date:
    1 August 2002
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    UK in breach of rights of transsexuals

    In Goodwin v United Kingdom (11 July 2002), the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rules that the lack of recognition in the UK of a transsexual's new gender identity for legal purposes is a breach both of article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (respect for private life) and article 12 (right to marry).

  • Date:
    1 December 1994
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    No hours bar on unfair dismissal claims

    In Clifford v Devon County Council the EAT has ruled that public sector employees are eligible to bring an unfair dismissal complaint, by using EC law, even though they work less than eight hours per week.

  • Date:
    1 September 1994
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Compensation for unintentional indirect discrimination

    Compensation for unintentional indirect sex discrimination is payable under the Equal Treatment Directive, rules a London South industrial tribunal (Chair: E R Donnelly) in Tickle v Governors of Riverview CF School and Surrey County Council.

  • Date:
    1 September 1994
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Impact test to ECJ

    The European Court of Justice has been asked by an Ashford industrial tribunal (Chair: G W Davis) in Rudling v PSA Services and another to rule on the proper test to be applied under EC law in order to determine whether a practice has a disparate impact upon women.

  • Date:
    31 December 1989
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Marleasing SA v La Comercial Internacional de Alimentacion SA

    In Marleasing SA v La Comercial Internacional de Alimentacion Case C-106/89 ECJ, the European Court of Justice held that a national court hearing a case that falls within the scope of an EC Directive is required to interpret its national law in the light of the wording and scope of that Directive, whether the provisions in question were adopted before or after the Directive.

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