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  General Billposting Co Ltd v Atkinson [1909] AC 118 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • General Billposting Co Ltd v Atkinson

    Date:

    31 December 1909

    In General Billposting Co Ltd v Atkinson [1909] AC 118 HL, the House of Lords held that if an employer wrongly terminates a contract of employment the employee is entitled to regard the contract as ended and is no longer bound by the contract terms, including restraint clauses.

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  General Dynamics Information Technology Ltd v Carranza [2015] IRLR 43 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: Employer was not required to disregard final written warning for absence

    Date:

    9 August 2015

    In General Dynamics Information Technology Ltd v Carranza [2015] IRLR 43 EAT, the EAT held that, when dismissing a disabled employee for absence, the employer was not required either to disregard a final written warning for the purpose of complying with its duty to make reasonable adjustments, or to review the warning before placing reliance on it to effect dismissal.

  • Disability discrimination: disregarding final warning over attendance not a reasonable adjustment

    Date:

    20 October 2014

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that the duty to make reasonable adjustments does not extend to disregarding a final warning about attendance that is relied on when taking the decision to dismiss a disabled employee because of his or her level of absenteeism.

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  General Dynamics Land Systems Inc v Cline 24 February 2004 US Supreme Court (1 report relating to this case)

  • US court upholds older worker preferences

    Date:

    1 May 2004

    The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act allows employers to provide more generous benefits to older workers, even though this discriminates against younger workers.

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  General Medical Council v Goba [1988] IRLR 425 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Statutory authority defence narrowly construed

    Date:

    1 November 1988

    In General Medical Council v Goba (7.7.88) EOR22B, the EAT holds that s.41 of the Race Relations Act 1976 (RRA), which provides a defence for acts of discrimination done "in pursuance of any enactment", only protects acts which are reasonably necessary to comply with any statutory condition or requirement.

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  General Mills (Berwick) v Glowacki EAT/0139/11 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 December 2011

    Tori O'Neil, Tessa Harland, Sarah Wade and Ed Gregory are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

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  General Municipal and Boilermakers Union v Henderson [2015] IRLR 451 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Philosophical belief under Equality Act 2010 can include left-wing beliefs

    Date:

    27 April 2015

    In a case report from Trowers & Hamlins, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered whether or not an employee who held left-wing democratic socialist beliefs and fell within the scope of philosophical belief protection afforded under the Equality Act 2010 was unlawfully discriminated against and unlawfully harassed.

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  Genower v Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow Area Health Authority [1980] IRLR 297 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Genower v Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow Area Health Authority

    Date:

    1 August 1980

    In Genower v Ealing, Hammersmith & Hounslow Area Health Authority [1980] IRLR 297 EAT, the EAT held that the attempt by the respondent employers to change the appellant's job duties and place of work following a reorganisation, albeit a breach of contract which justified him in resigning and claiming that he had been dismissed within the meaning of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act, section 55(2)(c), was a dismissal for some other substantial reason and was reasonable in all the circumstances.

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  Gentry v Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust ET/1101884/08 & ET/1101278/08 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal: failure to allow NHS employee legal representation at disciplinary appeal hearing

    Date:

    12 April 2011

    This employment tribunal decision demonstrates that there are circumstances in which it is necessary for employers to allow employees to have legal representation at a disciplinary appeal hearing, following the Court of Appeal decisions in R (on the application of G) v Governors of X School and Y City Council [2010] IRLR 222 CA and Kulkarni v Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Trust and Secretary of State for Health [2009] IRLR 829 CA.

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  George v H and M Bottomley Ltd [2005] ET/1802591/05 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 August 2006

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

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  Georgiou v Colman Coyle March 2002 IDS Brief 705 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Georgiou v Colman Coyle

    Date:

    31 December 2002

    In Georgiou v Colman Coyle March 2002 IDS Brief 705, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that where the employer had suggested that the employee resign and return to work after a break, so forfeiting her continuity of employment, there could be a fundamental breach of the implied term of trust and confidence. However, because the employer had withdrawn the offer and made a new one keeping the continuity intact, there was no breach.