All items: Employment status

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  Nesbitt and another v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry [2007] IRLR 847 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case of the week: Employment status of directors and shareholders

    Date:

    15 October 2007

    This week's case of the week, provided by Addleshaw Goddard, covers the employment status of directors and shareholders.

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  New Testament Church of God v Stewart [2007] IRLR 178 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • The New Testament Church of God v Reverend Stewart

    Date:

    30 October 2006

    In The New Testament Church of God v Reverend Stewart EAT/0293/06, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has handed down a decision holding that ministers of religion can claim unfair dismissal.

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  Newland v Simons and Willer (Hairdressers) Ltd [1981] IRLR 359 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Newland v Simons and Willer (Hairdressers) Ltd

    Date:

    1 August 1981

    In Newland v Simons and Willer (Hairdressers) Ltd [1981] IRLR 359 EAT, the EAT held that where a contract of employment is being performed illegally by the employer, whether the employee is in turn affected by that illegal performance depends upon whether he was a party to or knew of his employer's illegality.

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  North Wales Probation Area v Edwards EAT/0468/07 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case of the week: Employment status

    Date:

    15 January 2008

    This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers employment status.

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  O'Kelly and others v Trusthouse Forte plc [1983] IRLR 369 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Casual waiters not employees

    Date:

    23 August 1983

    An Industrial Tribunal's decision as to whether a contract is a contract of employment can only be overturned on appeal if the Tribunal misdirected itself in law or reached a perverse decision on the facts, the majority of the Court of Appeal concludes in the widely publicised case of O'Kelly and others v Trusthouse Forte Plc.

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  Percy v an order and judgment of the EAT 057/17/99 CS (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employment status: Church of Scotland associate minister had no contract

    Date:

    15 June 2001

    An associate minister of the Church of Scotland was not employed by the Board of National Mission of the Church of Scotland for the purposes of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, holds the Inner House of the Court of Session in Percy v an order and judgment of the EAT.

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  Percy v Church of Scotland Board of National Mission [2006] IRLR 195 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employment status/sex discrimination: Church minister was employee for sex discrimination purposes

    Date:

    7 April 2006

    In Percy v Church of Scotland Board of National Mission, the House of Lords holds that a church minister who had entered into a contract personally to execute work or labour was an "employee" for the purposes of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.

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  Pimlico Plumbers Ltd and another v Smith [2017] IRLR 323 CA (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Employment status: "Self-employed" plumber was a worker

    Date:

    21 April 2017

    In Pimlico Plumbers Ltd and another v Smith [2017] IRLR 323 CA, the Court of Appeal held that a plumber described in his contract as a "self-employed operative" was a "worker" under the relevant statutory provisions.

  • Court of Appeal decides that a "self-employed" plumber was a worker

    Date:

    14 February 2017

    The Court of Appeal has held that a plumber, described in his contract as a "self-employed operative", was a worker under statutory provisions entitling him to rights as a worker.

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  Pimlico Plumbers Ltd and another v Smith EAT/0495/12 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 March 2015

    David Malamatenios is a partner, and Colin Makin and Krishna Santra are senior associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

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  Powell v Newnham Farms Ltd [2003] All ER (D) 91 (Mar) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round up: employment status and breach of contractual disciplinary procedure

    Date:

    15 April 2003

    This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering: employment status; and breach of contractual disciplinary procedure.