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  Watson v University of Strathclyde [2011] IRLR 458 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case of the week: Constructive dismissal

    Date:

    26 April 2011

    This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers constructive dismissal.

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  Watt v Ballantyne & Copeland [1994] IT/1262/94 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Full-time return only

    Date:

    1 June 1995

    A jobsharer who was only permitted to return to work after maternity leave on a full-time basis was unlawfully discriminated against, rules a Glasgow industrial tribunal (Chair: S F R Patrick) in Watt v Ballantyne & Copeland.

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  Watts v High Quality Lifestyles Ltd [2005] ET/1100008/05 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case digest

    Date:

    1 February 2006

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

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  Way and another v Crouch [2005] IRLR 603 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Sex discrimination: Compensation can be awarded on joint and several basis

    Date:

    18 November 2005

    In Way and another v Crouch, the EAT holds that employment tribunals have jurisdiction to award compensation in discrimination cases on the basis of joint and several liability. However, this does not apply to unfair dismissal, which is not a statutory tort like race, sex and disability discrimination, for example.

  • Case round-up: Liability for harassment

    Date:

    28 June 2005

    This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering the joint and several liability of an employer and harasser for harassment.

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  Way v Spectrum Property Care Ltd [2015] IRLR 657 CA (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal: Warning issued in bad faith cannot be relied on

    Date:

    1 August 2015

    In Way v Spectrum Property Care Ltd [2015] IRLR 657 CA, the Court of Appeal held that an employer cannot rely on a warning on an employee's file that was given in bad faith, alongside later misconduct, when deciding that there is sufficient reason to dismiss. To do so would be outside the range of reasonable responses, and not in accordance with equity and the substantial merits of the case.

  • Unfair dismissal: decision to dismiss should not rely on a warning issued in bad faith

    Date:

    5 May 2015

    The Court of Appeal has revisited the issue of warnings and confirmed that a warning given in bad faith cannot be relied on to justify a dismissal.

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  Wearing v John Millar & Sons (1844) Ltd [2002] ET/S/401464/2000 (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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  Weatherford UK Ltd v Aitken EAT/0049/03 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up: dismissal of workers posted abroad and misconduct dismissals

    Date:

    10 February 2004

    This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering: dismissal of workers posted abroad; and misconduct dismissals.

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  Weathersfield Ltd t/a Van & Truck Rentals v Sargent [1998] IRLR 14 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Race discrimination: Discriminatory instruction was less favourable treatment

    Date:

    15 May 1998

    In Weathersfield Ltd t/a Van & Truck Rentals v Sargent, the EAT upholds an industrial tribunal's finding that a white employee suffered unlawful race discrimination when she was instructed by her employer to discriminate on racial grounds against black and Asian people, and consequently resigned because she was put in an intolerable position.

  • Discriminatory instruction can be discriminatory treatment

    Date:

    1 December 1997

    A white employee who was instructed to discriminate on racial grounds was entitled to treat the instruction as grounds for constructive dismissal and for claiming that she was less favourably treated on grounds of race, the EAT has ruled in Weathersfield Ltd t/a Van & Truck Rentals v Sargent.

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  Weathersfield Ltd t/a Van & Truck Rentals v Sargent [1999] IRLR 94 CA (3 reports relating to this case)

  • Purposive construction of "racial grounds"

    Date:

    1 March 1999

    In Weathersfield Ltd t/a Van & Truck Rentals v Sargent the Court of Appeal has ruled that an employee is unfavourably treated on racial grounds if they are required to carry out a racially discriminatory policy, even though the instruction concerns others of a different racial group to themselves.

  • Race discrimination: White woman told to discriminate against black people was herself racially discriminated against

    Date:

    15 January 1999

    A white woman who left her job with a vehicle rental company because she objected to its policy of not hiring vehicles to black people was herself the victim of unlawful race discrimination, holds the Court of Appeal in Weathersfield Ltd (t/a Van & Truck Rentals) v Sargent.

  • "Racial grounds" widely construed

    Date:

    1 January 1999

    In Weathersfield Ltd v Sargent (10 December 1998) EOR83D, the Court of Appeal finds that a white employee was discriminated against on racial grounds when she resigned after having been given an instruction to discriminate against prospective customers of black and Asian origin.

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  Webb and another v Thomas Cook Airlines Ltd and another ET/2302705/2012 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Golden handcuffs: pilots who took voluntary redundancy entitled to reclaim loans they made to airline

    Date:

    26 March 2013

    This unusual breach of contract case involving pilots who sought to be repaid loans that they made to an airline provides a useful reminder for employers of the definition of redundancy.