Case roundup: unfair dismissal and positive discrimination

This report relates to 2 case(s)

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  Lommers v Minister Van Landbouw, Natuurbeheer en Visserij [2002] IRLR 430 ECJ (3 other reports)

  • EC: ECJ case law round-up

    Date:

    1 January 2003

    In our latest round-up of decisions from the European Court of Justice (ECJ), we look at cases on equal pay, the principle of equal treatment as related to working conditions, the meaning of a transfer for the purposes of the business transfers Directive and, finally, guarantee payments to employees following the insolvency of their employers.

  • Sex discrimination: Providing nursery places to female employees only did not breach Equal Treatment Directive

    Date:

    15 June 2002

    In Lommers v Minister van Landbouw, Natuurbeheer en Visseij, the European Court of Justice rules that a policy under which an employer provided female employees only with access to nursery places for their children at work, while denying male employees with children the same facility save in cases of emergency, did not breach the Equal Treatment Directive.

  • ECJ endorses positive discrimination

    Date:

    1 May 2002

    In Lommers v Minister van Landbouw, Natuurbeheer en Visserij (19 March 2002), the European Court of Justice upholds a policy in a Dutch civil service department which offers subsidised childcare places only to female employees. The ECJ says that the scheme does not contravene EU law so long as it is also available on the same conditions to men who are single parents.

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  Soteriou v Ultrachem Ltd [2002] All ER (D) 396 (May) EAT (1 other report)

  • Illegal contracts: Employee's participation in tax fraud rendered contract illegal

    Date:

    10 January 2003

    In Soteriou v Ultrachem, Solvo Ltd and Ultracolour Ltd, the EAT upholds an employment tribunal's decision that an employee's knowing and active participation in the deception of the tax authorities as to his employment status was primarily for his own benefit.