Cases within W

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  Walker v (1) Remploy Ltd (2) Caledonian Club [2002] ET/S/402321/00 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 June 2002

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

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  Walker v Golden Vale [1996] 175/94 FET (1 report relating to this case)

  • £77,500 awarded in religious bias case

    Date:

    1 December 1996

    A Protestant executive who suffered "severe injury to his feelings" and was "effectively driven out of his employment" on grounds of religion or political opinion has been awarded compensation of £77,446 by the Fair Employment Tribunal (Chair: M Davey) in Walker v Golden Vale (UK) Ltd and others.

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  Walker v Innospec Ltd and others [2017] IRLR 928 SC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Supreme Court rules on equal pension benefits for civil partners and same-sex spouses

    Date:

    12 July 2017

    The Supreme Court has overturned the Court of Appeal's decision and held that civil partners and same-sex spouses are entitled to pension benefits accrued before the introduction of civil partnerships on 5 December 2005.

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  Walker v Innospec Ltd and others ET/2411316/11 (1 report relating to this case)

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) overturned this employment tribunal decision. The EAT held in Innospec Ltd v Walker and another [2014] IRLR 334 EAT that the Equality Act 2010 does not breach EU law by denying a couple in a civil partnership accrual of benefits to which married couples were entitled under a pension scheme.

  • Equality Act 2010 construed to give civil partners equal accrued pension benefits to married couples

    Date:

    29 January 2013

    The employment tribunal held that the Equality Act 2010 failed to provide the required protection under EU law for a couple in a civil partnership who were denied accrual of benefits to which married couples were entitled under a pension scheme.

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  Walker v Minivator Ltd ET/3500187/09 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employee who sold his employer's products on eBay was unfairly dismissed

    Date:

    15 September 2010

    Even if an employer believes that it has a good reason to dismiss an employee, it must still carry out a fair investigation, as this case demonstrates.

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  Walker v Northumberland County Council [1995] IRLR 35 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employer liable for stress-related illness

    Date:

    1 January 1995

    In Walker v Northumberland County Council the High Court holds an employer liable for the psychiatric damage suffered by an employee after it failed to take reasonable steps to avert a second nervous breakdown.

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  Walker v Phones 4 U Ltd [2004] ET/2603114/03 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 January 2005

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

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  Walker v Sita Information Networking Computing Ltd EAT/0097/12 (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Disability discrimination: Employee who suffered from "functional overlay accentuated by obesity" was disabled

    Date:

    28 May 2013

    In Walker v Sita Information Networking Computing Ltd EAT/0097/12, the EAT held that an obese employee who genuinely suffered from multiple symptoms that were not explained by either a pathological process or any significant physical changes was disabled.

  • Disability discrimination: obese individual suffering from multiple symptoms disabled

    Date:

    26 March 2013

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has considered whether or not an obese individual who suffered from multiple symptoms was disabled for the purposes of disability discrimination legislation.

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  Walker v The Co-operative Insurance Society EAT/0754/01 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Holiday pay: Contractual holiday pay in excess of statutory entitlement satisfies WTR

    Date:

    1 August 2002

    In Walker v The Co-operative Insurance Society, the EAT holds that there is no breach of the Working Time Regulations 1998 ("the WTR") where an employer fails to use the formula specified thereunder to calculate holiday pay entitlement for an employee who works variable hours, but makes a contractual payment in excess of the employee's entitlement under the WTR.

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  Walker v Thornton t/a Posh Nosh Café [2002] ET/5201635/02 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 April 2003

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