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  Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery NHS Trust v Bewley [2008] IRLR 588 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: Claimant cannot rely on hypothetical comparator

    Date:

    28 July 2008

    In Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery NHS Trust v Bewley [2008] IRLR 588, the EAT held that the decision in Diocese of Hallam Trustee v Connaughton was fundamentally flawed and should not be followed.

  • Walton Centre for Neurology & Neuro Surgery NHS Trust v Bewley

    Date:

    30 May 2008

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that a previous EAT decision that a woman claiming equal pay could rely on her successor in the post as a comparator is incorrect.

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  Walton v Airtours plc and Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada [2003] IRLR 161 CA (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Case round-up: entitlements to PHI benefits and disability claims

    Date:

    25 February 2003

    This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering: entitlements to PHI benefits; and disability claims.

  • Contracts of employment: Employee was entitled to long-term incapacity benefit

    Date:

    21 February 2003

    In Walton v Airtours plc and another, the Court of Appeal holds that an airline pilot who was unable to continue with his job after becoming ill with chronic fatigue syndrome, but was fit to undertake light part-time work with rehabilitation and a programme of support, remained entitled to benefits under the employer's PHI scheme, notwithstanding that those benefits were payable in the long term only if the employee was unable to "follow any occupation".

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  Walton v Gen-Vent Metal Workers Ltd [2010] ET/2340560/09 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Violence in the workplace: employment tribunal decisions

    Date:

    16 March 2011

    This article summarises the main issues and outcomes in five employment tribunal cases that involve violence in a workplace context.

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  Walton v Independent Living Organisation Ltd [2003] IRLR 469 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • National minimum wage: Live-in carer was entitled to payment only for specific tasks performed

    Date:

    9 May 2003

    In Walton v Independent Living Organisation Ltd, the Court of Appeal holds that a carer who was required to be on the client's premises for a consecutive period of 72 hours each week was carrying out "unmeasured work" rather than "time work" under the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999.

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  Walton v The Nottingham Gateway Hotel Ltd [2004] ET/2600273/04 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 November 2005

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

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  Waltons & Morse v Dorrington [1997] IRLR 488 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Implied duty to provide suitable working environment

    Date:

    15 October 1997

    An employer's failure to ban smoking in a poorly ventilated workplace, after it became clear that measures already introduced to resolve the problem of passive smoking were inadequate, was in repudiatory breach of an implied contractual term that it would provide and monitor for its employees, so far as reasonably practicable, a working environment which was reasonably suitable for the performance of their contractual duties, holds the EAT in Waltons & Morse v Dorrington.

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  Wandsworth London Borough Council v D'Silva and another [1998] IRLR 193 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Provisions of sickness absence code not contractually binding

    Date:

    15 July 1998

    In London Borough of Wandsworth v D'Silva and another, the Court of Appeal holds that provisions of a code of practice on sickness absence which an employer was seeking to amend unilaterally were not contractually binding on that employer.

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  Wang v University of Keele [2011] IRLR 542 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 June 2011

    Claire Benson is managing associate and Helen Corbett, Sinead Jones, Helen Ward and Tori O'Neil are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

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  Warby v Wunda Group plc EAT/0434/11 (1 report relating to this case)

  • EAT holds that "context is everything" in determining whether or not words complained of constitute discrimination

    Date:

    17 April 2012

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, in ascertaining whether or not words that reference a protected characteristic constitute unlawful discrimination, the conduct complained of must be seen in context. 

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  Ward Brothers (Malton) Ltd and others v Middleton EAT/0249/13 (1 report relating to this case)

  • TUPE and insolvency: EAT considers limited circumstances in which employees do not transfer

    Date:

    22 January 2014

    In DLA Piper's latest case report, the Employment Appeal Tribunal examined the TUPE provisions that mean that employees do not automatically transfer where the transferor is "under the supervision of an insolvency practitioner".