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  Newbound v Thames Water Utilities Ltd [2015] IRLR 734 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal on health and safety grounds of long-serving employee

    Date:

    22 September 2015

    In DLA Piper's latest case report, the Court of Appeal considered the familiar question of when an employment tribunal can find an employer's misconduct dismissal to be unfair, and in what circumstances that finding can be successfully challenged on appeal.

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  Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v Haywood [2018] IRLR 644 SC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employee's notice period began when she read dismissal letter

    Date:

    27 April 2018

    In Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v Haywood, the Supreme Court held that, where an employee was dismissed by letter, her notice period began when she read the letter, or had a reasonable opportunity to do so.

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  Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust v Haywood [2017] IRLR 629 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Posted notice of dismissal effective only when received by employee

    Date:

    18 May 2017

    The Court of Appeal has held that, in the absence of an express term in the employment contract, a posted notice of dismissal is effective only when it is "actually communicated" to the employee.

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  Newey v Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd ET/2514387/09 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Managers' comments put undue pressure on underperforming older worker to retire early

    Date:

    6 April 2011

    The employment tribunal in this case found that comments from two managers in capability meetings, suggesting that an underperforming older worker might consider early retirement, constituted age discrimination.

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  Newland v Simons and Willer (Hairdressers) Ltd [1981] IRLR 359 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Newland v Simons and Willer (Hairdressers) Ltd

    Date:

    1 August 1981

    In Newland v Simons and Willer (Hairdressers) Ltd [1981] IRLR 359 EAT, the EAT held that where a contract of employment is being performed illegally by the employer, whether the employee is in turn affected by that illegal performance depends upon whether he was a party to or knew of his employer's illegality.

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  Newman v Polytechnic of Wales Students Union [1995] IRLR 72 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Date of dismissal: Termination date ratified retrospectively

    Date:

    1 August 1994

    A dismissal decision, made at a meeting which was not properly convened, was ratified retrospectively at a subsequent meeting convened within the rules, holds the EAT in Newman v Polytechnic of Wales Students Union.

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  Newman v Riverside Building Supplies Ltd ET/3201396/14 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Whistleblowing: complaint about line manager's rudeness to colleague not "in the public interest"

    Date:

    11 May 2015

    An employment tribunal has struck out whistleblowing claims brought by an individual who argued that he made a protected disclosure when he complained that his line manager had been rude to a colleague. The claimant did not reasonably believe that he was making the disclosure "in the public interest".

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  Newnham and others v Transco plc EAT/125/00 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Sex discrimination: Discriminatory retirement policy subjected women to detriment

    Date:

    1 May 2001

    An employer that operated a policy under which women had to retire at 60 but men could work until 65 directly discriminated against women by subjecting them to a detriment, holds the EAT in Newnham and others v Transco plc.

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  Newsome v The Council and City of Sunderland [2001] ET/6403592/99 (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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  Newsquest (Herald and Times) Limited v Keeping EATS/0051/10 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 April 2011

    Rebekah Martin, Carly Mather, Kate Edminson and James Buckley, all associates at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.