On appeal

This report relates to 3 case(s)

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  Middlesbrough Borough Council v TGWU and another [2002] IRLR 332 EAT (1 other report)

  • Collective redundancies: Employer failed to consult unions about ways of avoiding collective redundancies

    Date:

    1 August 2001

    In Middlesbrough Borough Council v Transport and General Workers' Union and another, the EAT upholds an employment tribunal's finding of fact that an employer failed to consult representatives of two trade unions that it recognised, in respect of more than 100 employees whom it was proposing to make redundant within 90 days, about ways of avoiding the dismissals.

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  Morrow v Safeway Stores plc [2002] IRLR 9 EAT (2 other reports)

  • Ruling makes change to constructive dismissal law

    Date:

    18 December 2001

    When disciplining staff in public over a 'buy one, get one free' promotion causes a case of constructive dismissal

  • Constructive dismissal: All breaches of duty of trust and confidence entitle employee to resign and claim constructive dismissal

    Date:

    3 December 2001

    In Morrow v Safeway Stores plc, the EAT holds that any breach of the implied duty of trust and confidence will inevitably be repudiatory, entitling the employee to resign and claim constructive dismissal.

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  Thompson v SCS Consulting Ltd and others [2001] IRLR 801 EAT (3 other reports)

  • Transfer of undertakings: Dismissal by receivers at transferee's request was for ETO reason

    Date:

    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.

  • Courts of Appeal conflict over definition of detriment

    Date:

    1 October 2001

    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

  • Case roundup: Pre-transfer of undertakings dismissal and sex discrimination

    Date:

    18 September 2001

    This week's case roundup, covering a pre-transfer of undertakings dismissal and sex discrimination.