All items: Pay and benefits

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  (1) Coutts & Co Plc (2) Royal Bank of Scotland v (1) Mr Paul Cure (2) Mr Peter Fraser EAT/0395/04 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Fixed-term workers: Fixed-term detriment found despite application to other groups

    Date:

    24 December 2004

    In Coutts & Co plc v Cure; Royal Bank of Scotland v Fraser, the EAT holds that, in a case where an employer refused to pay a non-contractual bonus to all non-permanent employees, including some fixed-term workers, the tribunal did not err in law by holding that the reason for the less favourable treatment was on the ground of the employees' status as fixed-term workers.

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  (1) M North and others v Pavleigh Ltd (2) D Skeet and others v Carr Mills Clothing Co Ltd [1977] IRLR 461 IT (1 report relating to this case)

  • (1) M North and others v Pavleigh Ltd (2) D Skeet and others v Carr Mills Clothing Co Ltd

    Date:

    1 December 1977

    In (1) M North and others v Pavleigh Ltd (2) D Skeet and others v Carr Mills Clothing Co Ltd [1977] IRLR 461 IT, the Industrial Tribunal held that an employer's closure of a workplace in order to observe a Jewish holiday is not an occurrence "affecting the normal working of the employer's business".

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  Abdoulaye and others v Régie Nationale Des Usines Renault SA [1999] IRLR 811 ECJ (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Pregnancy and maternity: Compensatory maternity allowance does not breach EC law

    Date:

    15 November 1999

    In Abdoulaye and others v Régie Nationale des Usines Renault SA, the ECJ rules that Article 141 of the Treaty of Rome does not preclude the making of a lump-sum payment exclusively to female workers who take maternity leave where that payment is designed to offset the occupational disadvantages which arise for those workers as a result of their being away from work.

  • Maternity bonus lawful

    Date:

    1 September 1999

    In Abdoulaye and others v Regie Nationale des Usines Renault SA the European Court of Justice has ruled that a maternity bonus to women did not discriminate against men so as to contravene Article 119 of the EC Treaty.

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  Abercrombie and others v Aga Rangemasters Ltd [2013] IRLR 953 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 December 2013

    Colin Makin, Krishna Santra, Linda Quinn and Sandra Martins are senior associates and Melissa Powys-Rodrigues is an associate at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

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  Ackinclose and others v Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council [2005] IRLR 79 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Transferees' contracts did not incorporate fresh collective bargain

    Date:

    11 February 2005

    In Ackinclose and others v Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that local authority employees contracted out to the private sector were not entitled to pay increases introduced under a new collective bargaining agreement, known as the Green Book.

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  Adams and others v Lancashire County Council and Bet Catering Services Ltd [1996] IRLR 154 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Transfer of undertakings: Pension rights excluded from transfers legislation

    Date:

    15 March 2001

    The EC Business Transfers Directive excludes all pension rights (past, present and future) from the terms and conditions transferred with employees on the transfer of an undertaking, holds the High Court in Adams and others v (1) Lancashire County Council and (2) BET Catering Services Ltd.

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  Adin v Sedco Forex International Resources Ltd [1997] IRLR 280 CS (1 report relating to this case)

  • Adin v Sedco Forex International Resources Ltd

    Date:

    1 May 1997

    In Adin v Sedco Forex International Resources Ltd [1997] IRLR 280 CS, the Court of Session held that if an employer provides sickness benefits it will be a breach of contract to dismiss an employee on grounds of ill health while he or she has sickness benefit outstanding.

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  Advocate General opinion in Lock v British Gas Trading Ltd and others Case C-539/12 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Holiday pay calculation should reflect commission worker would have received, suggests Advocate General

    Date:

    6 December 2013

    The Advocate General has taken the view that, where the remuneration received by a worker comprises both basic pay and commission calculated by reference to the sales that the worker gets from his or her own work, such commission should be included in the calculation of holiday pay.

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  Advocate General’s opinion in The Sash Window Workshop Ltd and another v King Case C-214/16 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Annual leave: Advocate General suggests that workers can carry over holiday entitlement until paid holiday offered

    Date:

    8 June 2017

    The Advocate General has taken the view that where an employer has not provided a worker with paid leave, the worker's right to paid leave carries over until they have the opportunity to exercise it and, on termination of the engagement, the worker has the right to payment in lieu of any leave that is outstanding.

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  Agarwal v Cardiff University and another [2017] IRLR 600 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 June 2017

    Chris Cook is partner and Keely Rushmore senior associate at SA Law. They round up the latest rulings.