Case round up

This report relates to 5 case(s)

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  Burton v Glycosynth Ltd [2005] All ER (D) 272 (Jun) EAT (1 other report)

  • Hasty employers could be resigned to compensation

    Date:

    9 August 2005

    When is a resignation not counted as a resignation? By Peter Schofield, Director of employment and legal affairs, EEF.

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  Colesby v Mountain Spring Water Co Ltd [2005] All ER (D) 344 (Jul) EAT (0 other reports)
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  Copsey v WWB Devon Clays Ltd [2005] IRLR 811 CA (2 other reports)

  • Unfair dismissal: Dismissal for refusal of Sunday working not unfair

    Date:

    30 September 2005

    In Copsey v WWB Devon Clays Ltd, the Court of Appeal holds that article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights did not require the Employment Rights Act 1996 to be interpreted in such a way as to render a dismissal for refusing a change to his working hours that meant working on Sundays, unfair.

  • Case round-up: Sunday working

    Date:

    9 August 2005

    This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering dismissal for refusing to work on Sundays.

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  King and another v Skillbase Services Ltd [2005] All ER (D) 106 (Jun) CS (1 other report)

  • Transfer of undertakings: Employee not assigned to contract did not transfer

    Date:

    16 September 2005

    In Mowlem Technical Services (Scotland) Ltd v King and another, the Court of Session holds that the proper approach to deciding whether an employee is assigned to a transferred undertaking is to consider the range of circumstances. There can be no exhaustive list of factors, as facts will vary from case to case.

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  Royal National Lifeboat Institution v Bushaway [2005] IRLR 674 EAT (1 other report)

  • Employment status/continuity of employment: Ex-agency worker was employee from start of temporary contract

    Date:

    12 August 2005

    In Bushaway v RNLI, the EAT holds that an agency worker who worked under a temporary contract before her post was made permanent was an employee, for the purposes of qualifying to bring an unfair dismissal claim, from the beginning of her temporary contract.