Courts of Appeal conflict over definition of detriment
This report relates to 7 case(s)
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Garry v London Borough of Ealing [2001] IRLR 681 CA
(4 other reports)
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- 17 December 2001
The Court of Appeal holds that when an employer continued an investigation into the activities of a black female employee for longer than an ordinary investigation would have taken, for reasons connected with her ethnic origin, the employer subjected her to a "detriment" within the meaning of the Race Relations Act 1976. We review the case of Garry v London Borough of Ealing.
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- 25 September 2001
Continuing our regular series spelling out the implications of important cases which have been heard recently in the appeal courts.
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- 4 September 2001
This week's case roundup, covering the meaning of a "detriment" within race discrimination and payment in lieu of accrued but untaken holiday on termination of employment.
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- 1 September 2001
The Court of Appeal in Garry v London Borough of Ealing has found that a black employee was subjected to a "detriment" within the meaning of s.4(2)(c) of the Race Relations Act when, for reasons connected with her ethnic origin, an investigation by her employers into her activities was continued longer than an ordinary investigation would have been.
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Olakotan v Iqbal [2001] All ER (D) 427 (Mar) EAT (0 other reports)
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Post Office v Liddiard [2001] All ER (D) 46 (Jun) CA
(3 other reports)
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- 1 October 2001
Organisations worried about damage to their reputations from the out-of-hours misconduct of employees could be justified in sacking them.
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- 21 August 2001
This week's case roundup, covering failure to inform and consult on a TUPE transfer and dismissal as a result of bringing an employer into disrepute.
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- 1 August 2001
In Post Office v Liddiard, the Court of Appeal sets aside an employment tribunal's decision that the dismissal of an employee following his involvement in football hooliganism was unfair.
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Shamoon v Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary [2001] IRLR 520 NICA
(3 other reports)
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- 18 September 2001
This week's case roundup, covering a pre-transfer of undertakings dismissal and sex discrimination.
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- 1 September 2001
In Shamoon v Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (3 May 2001), the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland allows an appeal against a finding that a female chief inspector was discriminated against on grounds of sex when it was decided that she would no longer do performance appraisals after a complaint was made about her.
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- 15 August 2001
A female chief inspector failed in her sex discrimination complaint as she could not show that she had suffered a detriment, holds the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal in Shamoon v Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
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Thompson v SCS Consulting Ltd and others [2001] IRLR 801 EAT
(3 other reports)
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- 15 January 2002
The EAT holds in Thompson v SCS Consulting Ltd and others that an employment tribunal was entitled to find that an employee who was dismissed by the receivers of an insolvent transferor at the request of the transferee prior to the transfer of the undertaking, in circumstances where all employees would have been dismissed had the transferee not taken over the business, was dismissed for an "economic, technical or organisational" reason within the meaning of the TUPE Regulations.
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- 4 December 2001
Continuing our regular series spelling out the implications of important cases heard recently in the appeal courts. Paul White and Charlotte Hamer look at the issues
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- 18 September 2001
This week's case roundup, covering a pre-transfer of undertakings dismissal and sex discrimination.
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Transport & General Workers' Union v James McKinnon, JR (Haulage) Ltd and others [2001] IRLR 597 EAT
(1 other report)
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Witley and District Men's Club v Mackay [2001] IRLR 595 EAT
(3 other reports)
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- 25 September 2001
Continuing our regular series spelling out the implications of important cases which have been heard recently in the appeal courts.
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- Date:
- 4 September 2001
This week's case roundup, covering the meaning of a "detriment" within race discrimination and payment in lieu of accrued but untaken holiday on termination of employment.
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- 1 August 2001
In Witley & District Mens Club v Mackay, the EAT holds that a provision in a collective agreement denying pay in lieu of outstanding holiday entitlement to a worker dismissed for dishonesty, which was incorporated into his contract of employment, was rendered void by the Working Time Regulations 1998.
Two apparently contradictory judgements address whether treatment must have
any material consequences to constitute a detriment under discrimination law.
Plus, cases on Tupe, termination payments and unfair dismissal for misconduct
unrelated to employment.
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