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Kraft Foods UK Ltd v Hastie EAT/0024/10
(1 report relating to this case)
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- 9 November 2010
In Kraft Foods UK Ltd v Hastie EAT/0024/10, the EAT held that a contractual redundancy scheme that capped payments at the total amount of earnings that the employee would have received prior to retirement was justified as a proportionate means of preventing redundant employees from receiving a windfall.
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Kratzer v R+V Allgemeine Versicherung AG [2016] IRLR 888 ECJ
(2 reports relating to this case)
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- 30 November 2016
In Kratzer v R+V Allgemeine Versicherung AG [2016] IRLR 888 ECJ, the ECJ held that a job applicant who is not genuinely seeking employment but whose sole purpose is to seek compensation for alleged discrimination with regard to his or her application is not protected by EU discrimination law.
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- 25 August 2016
In this German case, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a person who applies for a job with the sole purpose of making an application for compensation for discrimination is not covered by the Equal Treatment Framework Directive (2000/78/EC) or the Equal Opportunities and Equal Treatment Directive (2006/54/EC) and may be considered as having committed an abuse of rights under EU law.
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Kraus v Penna plc and another [2004] IRLR 260 EAT
(2 reports relating to this case)
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- 18 August 2006
Legislation protecting whistleblowers was introduced seven years ago. This article reviews the legislation and considers some of the substantial body of case law arising out of it. It also looks at the components of an effective whistleblowing policy.
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- 9 December 2003
This week's case round-up from Eversheds: covering whistleblowing.
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Kreuziger v Land Berlin Case C-619/16 ECJ
(1 report relating to this case)
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Kubilius v Kent Foods Ltd ET/3201960/20
(1 report relating to this case)
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Kücük v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen [2012] IRLR 697 ECJ
(2 reports relating to this case)
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- 14 August 2012
In Kücük v Land Nordrhein-Westfalen [2012] IRLR 697 ECJ, the ECJ held that an employer's use of 13 successive fixed-term contracts over a period of 11 years was not inherently in breach of the Fixed-term Workers Directive, but that the issue of objective justification had to be assessed by the national court on the particular facts of the case.
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- 6 February 2012
The European Court of Justice has suggested that it may be possible for employers to justify engaging an individual for more than four years on a succession of fixed-term contracts as he or she moves around to cover work for different absent employees.
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Kücükdeveci v Swedex GmbH & Co KG [2010] IRLR 346 ECJ
(1 report relating to this case)
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- 19 May 2010
In Kücükdeveci v Swedex GmbH & Co KG [2010] IRLR 346 ECJ, the ECJ held that German law that excludes employment below the age of 25 when calculating minimum statutory notice periods based on length of service amounts to unjustified age discrimination contrary to the Equal Treatment Framework Directive.
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Kuddus v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Constabulary [2001] UKHL 29
(1 report relating to this case)
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- 31 December 2001
In Kuddus v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Constabulary [2001] UKHL 29, the House of Lords allowed an appeal against a strike out of a claim for exemplary damages for the tort of misfeasance. It held that exemplary damages were not restricted to causes of action for which exemplary damages had been awarded prior to 1964. The House of Lords did not expressly decide whether exemplary damages should be available in discrimination cases.
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Kuehne & Nagel Ltd v Cosgrove EAT/0165/13
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Kulkarni v Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Trust and Secretary of State for Health [2009] IRLR 829 CA
(1 report relating to this case)
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- 28 October 2009
In Kulkarni v Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Trust and Secretary of State for Health [2009] IRLR 829 CA, the Court of Appeal held that NHS doctors subject to disciplinary proceedings are entitled to be represented at any disciplinary hearing by a qualified lawyer instructed by their medical protection organisation.