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  Kabir v Bangladesh Women's Association [1993] IT/10026/92 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Sylhetis are not a racial group

    Date:

    1 December 1993

    In Kabir v Bangladesh Women's Association a London (North) industrial tribunal (Chair: I Walker) rules that Sylhetis are not a "racial group" as defined by the Race Relations Act.

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  Kachelmann v Bankhaus Hermann Lampe Kg [2001] IRLR 49 ECJ (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Sex discrimination: Lack of comparability between part-time and full-time workers did not breach Equal Treatment Directive

    Date:

    15 December 2000

    Interpreting a national rule in such a way as to prevent comparisons between part-time and full-time workers during a selection process for redundancy did not contravene the Equal Treatment Directive, rules the European Court of Justice in Kachelmann v Bankhaus Hermann Lampe KG.

  • Part-timer's redundancy justified

    Date:

    1 December 2000

    In Kachelmann v Bankhaus Hermann Lampe KG the European Court of Justice has ruled that it is not contrary to the EC Equal Treatment Directive for a redundancy selection process not to compare part-time workers with full-time workers.

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  Kaczor v Booker Ltd ET/3304520/11 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Fair dismissal of warehouse cleaner accused of consuming stolen 39p yogurt in toilet

    Date:

    26 November 2012

    A harsh dismissal is not necessarily an unfair dismissal, as the claimant in this case found out.

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  Kakad v Consignia plc [2001] ET/5206424/00 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 February 2002

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

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  Kalanke v Freie Hansestadt Bremen [1995] IRLR 660 ECJ (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Sex discrimination: Equal Treatment Directive outlaws positive discrimination

    Date:

    1 January 1996

    In Kalanke v Freie Hansestadt Bremen, the European Court of Justice holds that the Equal Treatment Directive precludes national rules which guarantee women equally qualified with men automatic selection for appointment or promotion to posts in which women are underrepresented.

  • Positive discrimination prohibited

    Date:

    1 January 1996

    In Kalanke v Freie Hansestadt Bremen (17 October 1995) EOR65A, the European Court of Justice rules that a German law giving equally qualified women preference against men in selection for public sector jobs in which women were underrepresented did not fall within the exception to the principle of nondiscrimination permitted by Article 2(4) of the Equal Treatment Directive.

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  Kamal v Wakefield Health Authority [1994] IT/29829/94 (1 report relating to this case)

  • No time limit on part-time workers' claims

    Date:

    1 September 1994

    In Kamal v Wakefield Health Authority a Leeds industrial tribunal (Chair: J Prophet) has ruled that until new legislation has been enacted, there is no time limits on claims brought under Article 119 of the EC Treaty based on the decision of the House of Lords that the hours-per-week qualifying thresholds under the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act are incompatible with EC law.

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  Kambo and others v Vaulkhard 26 November 1984 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Exclusion of black people from pub not on racial grounds

    Date:

    1 May 1985

    Kambo and others v Vaulkhard (CA, 26.11.84) EOR1C upholds a finding that a publican did not discriminate on racial grounds by excluding some black people from his premises in the mistaken belief that they were part of a group who had previously caused trouble. This case also illustrates the limitations of the damages provisions for indirect discrimination.

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  Kampelmann v Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe [1998] IRLR 333  ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Written particulars: Employer's duty to notify employee of job specification or description has direct effect

    Date:

    15 September 1998

    Where a member state has incorrectly transposed into national law the obligation of an employer under the EC Written Particulars Directive to briefly specify or describe an employee's work in a notification of the essential aspects of the contract, public sector employees may rely on it against their employers directly before their national courts, holds the European Court of Justice in (1) Kampelmann and others v Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (2) Stadtwerke Witten GmbH v Schade (3) Haseley v Stadtwerke Altena GmbH.

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  Kanadia v (1) Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (2) Styles [2005] ET/3300003/03 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 August 2005

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

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  Kanapathiar v Harrow London Borough Council [2003] IRLR 571 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure: part 2

    Date:

    16 April 2004

    The second of our two-part feature on noteworthy decisions in practice and procedure at the employment tribunals and EAT looks at bias, the right to a fair hearing and a range of other issues.