All items: Industrial disputes

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  Balfour Beatty Engineering Services Ltd v Unite the Union [2012] IRLR 452 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Trade unions can exercise own judgment to comply with statutory balloting requirements

    Date:

    28 February 2012

    The High Court has held that trade unions may exercise their own judgment about what reasonable steps to take in a given situation to comply with the statutory balloting requirements. 

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  Baxter and others v Limb Group of Companies [1994] IRLR 572 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Redundancy: Decision not to replace dismissed employees did not imply redundancy

    Date:

    1 August 1994

    Dockers dismissed while taking part in industrial action were dismissed for that reason alone, holds the Court of Appeal in Baxter and others v Limb Group of Companies.

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  British Airports Authority v Ashton and others [1983] IRLR 287 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Industrial action: Byelaw renders picketing unlawful

    Date:

    26 July 1983

    Peaceful picketing at or near a person's own place of work for the purpose of obtaining or communicating information, or persuading others not to work, is lawful if it is in contemplation of furtherance of a trade dispute. However, this does not give the right to contravene byelaws made in pursuance of a power conferred by statute, holds the High Court in British Airports Authority v Ashton and others.

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  British Airways plc v Unite the Union (No.2) [2010] IRLR 809 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Court of Appeal publishes full judgment overturning British Airways strike injunction

    Date:

    24 June 2010

    The Court of Appeal has handed down its full judgment overturning an injunction preventing British Airways cabin crew from striking. 

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  British Airways plc v Unite the Union [2010] IRLR 423 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 June 2010

    Helen Samuel, associate solicitor and Anna Bridges, associate solicitor, at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.

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  Connex South Eastern Ltd v National Union of Rail Maritime and Transport Workers [1999] IRLR 249 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Industrial action: Overtime and rest-day working ban is a "strike"

    Date:

    1 April 1999

    A "strike" means a mutually planned refusal by employees to work for a period of time for which they were employed to work, holds the Court of Appeal in Connex South Eastern Ltd v National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers.

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  Conway v Wade [1909] AC 506 HL (1 report relating to this case)

  • Conway v Wade

    Date:

    31 December 1909

    In Conway v Wade [1909] AC 506 HL, the House of Lords held that a jury was entitled to find that the conduct of an individual in attempting to induce an employer to dismiss an employee was not conduct in 'contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute' and provided guidance as to the meaning of those words.

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  Cooper and others v Isle of Wight College [2008] IRLR 124 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Cooper and others v Isle of Wight College

    Date:

    12 December 2007

    The High Court has held that an employer could deduct only 1/260th of salary from employees' pay in respect of a one-day strike, and not 1/228th, which discounted paid holiday.

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  Crosville Wales Ltd v Tracey and others [1993] IRLR 60 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal remedies: Participation in industrial action can affect compensation

    Date:

    1 June 1994

    Until the Court of Appeal determines the issue, industrial tribunals should follow the most recent EAT decision on the question of reducing the compensation of employees unfairly dismissed while taking part in industrial action, holds the EAT in Crosville Wales Ltd v Tracey and others. A reduction may therefore be made on the grounds of an employee's conduct in participating in the action, but tribunals should not go so far as to conduct a broad "inquest" into the dispute.

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  Crosville Wales Ltd v Tracey and others [1996] IRLR 91 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Misconduct: Mere participation in industrial action is not contributory conduct

    Date:

    15 February 1996

    An industrial tribunal cannot reduce unfair dismissal compensation on the basis of contributory fault, if the only conduct relied on is a complainant's participation in the industrial action in the course of which his or her dismissal occurred, holds the Court of Appeal in Crosville Wales Ltd v Tracey and others.