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  Baker and others v Rochdale Health Authority 14 January 1994 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: Male nurse's training function justified higher pay

    Date:

    1 August 1994

    A male district nurse's training and advisory role in male catheterisation techniques was a genuine material factor justifying his being paid more than female district nurses, holds the Court of Appeal in Baker and others v Rochdale Health Authority.

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  Baker v Abellio London Ltd [2018] IRLR 186 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal: Failure to provide right to work evidence did not make employment illegal

    Date:

    22 November 2017

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has remitted to an employment tribunal the issue of whether or not a Jamaican national with the "right of abode" was fairly dismissed after he did not provide the required documentation during his employer's audit of its workforce's right to work in the UK.

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  Baker v Abellio London Ltd ET/2302684/2015 (1 report relating to this case)

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal remitted this case to a freshly constituted employment tribunal in Baker v Abellio London Ltd EAT/0250/16.

  • Dismissal of employee with no evidence of right to work in UK was fair

    Date:

    11 November 2016

    An employment tribunal has held that the employer fairly dismissed an employee who failed to produce evidence of his right to work in the UK.

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  Baker v Birmingham Metropolitan College ET/1301355/11 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Breaches of the Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures: more employment tribunal decisions

    Date:

    20 December 2011

    In the second of a two-part round-up, we summarise the main issues and outcomes in five more employment tribunal cases in which it was alleged that there were breaches of the "Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures". Although the decisions are not binding on other tribunals, they provide useful illustrations of how employers have had to pay increased compensation for breaches of the code.

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  Baker v Cornwall County Council [1990] IRLR 194 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Drawing inferences of discrimination

    Date:

    1 May 1990

    In Baker v Cornwall County Council (28 March 1990) EOR31B, the Court of Appeal rules that if discrimination takes place in circumstances which are consistent with the treatment being based on grounds of sex or race, the industrial tribunal should be prepared to draw the inference that the discrimination was on such grounds unless the alleged discriminator can satisfy the tribunal that there was some other innocent explanation.

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  Baker v House of Commons Commission ET/2200145/2019 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: Stopping hotdesking for short time is reasonable adjustment

    Date:

    5 May 2022

    In Baker v House of Commons Commission, an employment tribunal held that the employer had breached its duty to make reasonable adjustments when it failed to prevent the use of a disabled employee's modified workstation as a hot desk during her one-day absence.

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  Baker v Kaye [1997] IRLR 219 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Recruitment: Company doctor owed duty of care to prospective employee

    Date:

    15 May 1997

    A doctor retained by a company to carry out pre-employment medical assessments of its prospective employees owed a duty to one of them to take reasonable care in carrying out his assessment, and in arriving at a judgment as to whether or not to recommend the prospective employee for employment, holds the High Court in Baker v Kaye.

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  Baker v Portsmouth Football Club Ltd [1999] ET/3102233/98 (1 report relating to this case)

  • £20,000 award for injury to feelings

    Date:

    1 December 1999

    A woman who "suffered considerably" as a result of sexual harassment and who fell into a lengthy period of depression in part because of the harassment was awarded compensation of £20,000 for injury to feelings, including £5,000 for aggravated damages, by a Southampton employment tribunal (Chair: N Jenkinson) in Baker v Portsmouth Football Club Ltd.

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  Baker v Quantum Clothing Group and others [2009] EWCA Civ 499 CA (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Court of Appeal sets new date of knowledge on noise-induced hearing loss

    Date:

    1 September 2009

    In a landmark decision, the Court of Appeal ruled that January 1978 should be the date from which employers may be statutorily liable for noise-induced hearing loss caused by exposure to noise below 90dB(A).

  • Appeal judges lower dB(A) levels for hearing damages

    Date:

    1 August 2009

    Howard Fidderman looks at a Court of Appeal judgment that shows why a literal adherence to official guidance may not always be enough.

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  Baker v Securicor Omega Express Ltd [2000] IRLB 633 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Baker v Securicor Omega Express Ltd

    Date:

    31 December 2000

    In Baker v Securicor Omega Express Ltd [2000] IRLB 633 EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the employer had been in breach of contact in imposing a change from weekly to monthly pay, and the employee had been constructively dismissed. However, the dismissal was fair for some other substantial reason.