All items: Selection for redundancy

• expand

  (1) Clarke v Eley (IMI) Kynoch Ltd (2) Eley (IMI) Kynoch Ltd v Powell [1982] IRLR 482 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Discrimination: Part-timers first held indirect sex discrimination

    Date:

    21 December 1982

    In Clarke v Eley IMI) Kynoch Ltd and Eley (IMI) Kynoch Ltd v Powell, the EAT holds unlawful the blanket selection for redundancy of part-time workers, all of whom were women, before the criterion of last in first out was applied to full-timers.

• expand

  Alstom Traction Ltd v Birkenhead and others [2002] All ER (D) 147 (Oct) EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Meaningful consultation is vital for redundancies

    Date:

    3 June 2003

    Fair procedures must be followed in redundancy exercises to avoid unfair dismissal claims, but employers must take care not to neglect individual consultation. By Tim Woodward, Associate, Bevan Ashford.

  • On appeal: Selective redundancies

    Date:

    18 March 2003

    Continuing our series on the implications of recent significant cases, Anthony Korn, a barrister at 199 Strand Chambers, looks at the issues.

• expand

  Amoah v Morgan Elliott Ltd [2003] ET/2306156/02 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 December 2003

    Hilary Slater, consultant with Cobbetts solicitors, provides a round-up of employment tribunal decisions on discrimination.

• expand

  Anderson v Pringle of Scotland Ltd [1998] IRLR 64 CS (1 report relating to this case)

  • Wrongful dismissal: Injunction to restrain dismissal in breach of redundancy selection procedure

    Date:

    15 April 1998

    In Anderson v Pringle of Scotland Ltd, the Court of Session grants an interim interdict restraining an employer from selecting an employee for redundancy on any basis other than that which had been agreed between the employer and the employee's union.

• expand

  Aslett v Les Femmes de Menage Ltd [2009] ET/1101490/09 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Pregnancy and maternity leave discrimination: employment tribunal decisions

    Date:

    19 January 2010

    This article summarises the main issues and outcomes in five tribunal cases brought by pregnant employees or employees on maternity leave. Although the decisions are not binding on other tribunals, they provide useful illustrations for employers of situations that have led to pregnancy discrimination claims.

• expand

  Bentwood Bros (Manchester) Ltd v Shepherd [2003] IRLR 364 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Compensation: Application of discount for accelerated payment of future loss

    Date:

    5 September 2003

    In Bentwood Brothers (Manchester) Ltd v Shepherd the Court of Appeal holds that as a matter of principle, an employment tribunal should take account of the fact that a complainant who is awarded compensation for future loss of earnings has the benefit of accelerated payment in receiving a sum which he or she would otherwise receive in instalments over the period of loss.

• expand

  Boal v Gullick Dobson EAT/515/92 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Redundancy selection: Employer not obliged to reveal assessment details

    Date:

    1 March 1995

    In two recent cases, Boal and another v Gullick Dobson Ltd and Eaton Ltd v King and others the EAT holds that the employers, whose redundancy selection procedures were based on assessment of individual employees under various criteria, did not act unreasonably in refusing to disclose to employees details of the marks awarded.

• expand

  Bonfield v West Yorkshire Probation Board ET/1808833/09 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Failure to discount disability-related absences in redundancy scoring was discrimination

    Date:

    21 July 2010

    This case deals with a common issue in redundancy situations: the discounting of disability-related absences when scoring against a "sickness absence" criterion.

• expand

  Bottomer v Chamberlains Estate Agents and others [2009] ET/1307016/08 & ET/1307875/08 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Pregnancy and maternity leave discrimination: employment tribunal decisions

    Date:

    19 January 2010

    This article summarises the main issues and outcomes in five tribunal cases brought by pregnant employees or employees on maternity leave. Although the decisions are not binding on other tribunals, they provide useful illustrations for employers of situations that have led to pregnancy discrimination claims.

• expand

  Boulton & Paul Ltd v Arnold [1994] IRLR 532 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal remedies: EAT addresses limits of "Polkey" reductions

    Date:

    1 January 1995

    In a number of recent cases, the EAT has considered the approach industrial tribunals should take when considering reducing unfair dismissal compensation on the grounds that the unfairness was due only to "procedural" failures.