All items: Deductions from wages

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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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  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.

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  Alabaster v Barclays Bank plc and Secretary of State for Social Security (No.2) [2005] IRLR 576 CA (4 reports relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: case law update

    Date:

    3 February 2006

    We review recent significant equal pay cases and their implications. Developments of note include the application of the "single source" test to comparators within an employment unit, and a reference to the ECJ on whether use of length of service as a pay system criterion requires specific objective justification.

  • Maternity leave and equal pay: Male comparator not required in maternity pay claim

    Date:

    24 June 2005

    In Alabaster v Barclays Bank plc, the Court of Appeal holds that the answer to the problem of how to enable an employee effectively to enforce her right to claim arrears of maternity pay (owed to her as a result of a failure to take into account a pay rise awarded before her maternity leave started, but after the reference period for calculating her maternity pay had ended) lay in removing the requirement in s.1(1) of the Equal Pay Act 1970 for her to point to a male comparator.

  • No need for male comparator in maternity equal pay claims

    Date:

    1 June 2005

    In Alabaster v Barclays Bank plc and the Secretary of State for Social Security (3 May 2005), the Court of Appeal holds that in equal pay claims relating to maternity, the requirement for a male comparator in s.1 of the Equal Pay Act should be disapplied in order to comply with art. 141 of the EC Treaty.

  • Ruling leads to changes in SMP pay rise awards

    Date:

    10 May 2005

    Catherine Taylor, employment partner at Olswang, looks at the implications for employers of the recent adjustment of domestic law to comply with the ECJ's ruling that pay rises must be reflected in statutory maternity pay.

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  Alabaster v Woolwich plc and Secretary of State for Social Security [2000] IRLR 754 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • SMP Regulations breach EU law

    Date:

    1 September 2000

    In Alabaster v Woolwich plc and Secretary of State for Social Security, the EAT has ruled that an amendment made to the Statutory Maternity Pay Regulations failed to implement fully the European Court's decision in the Gillespie case because it does not allow women on maternity leave the benefit of pay increases that are not backdated.

  • Maternity pay: Benefit of non-backdated pay increase should have been added to maternity pay

    Date:

    15 June 2000

    In Alabaster v Woolwich plc and another, the EAT holds that a woman was entitled to see the benefit of a pay increase awarded before she went on maternity leave reflected in the calculation of her earnings-related, higher-rate statutory maternity pay ("SMP").

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  Alabaster v Woolwich plc and Secretary of State for Social Security [2002] IRLR 420 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Equal value update

    Date:

    1 May 2003

    Kate Godwin charts the recent developments on equal pay and reports on key equal value cases.

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  Alabaster v Woolwich plc and Secretary of State for Social Security [2004] IRLR 486 ECJ (4 reports relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: SMP must include pay rise effective after reference period

    Date:

    18 June 2004

    In Alabaster v Woolwich plc, the European Court of Justice holds that article 119 (now 141) of the EC Treaty of Rome requires that earnings-related maternity pay must reflect any pay rise awarded between the start of the reference period (upon which the level of the earnings-related maternity pay is based) and the end of the employee's maternity leave.

  • Maternity pay to include all pay rises during maternity leave

    Date:

    1 June 2004

    In Alabaster v (1) Woolwich plc and (2) Secretary of State for Social Security, the ECJ rules that the earnings-related element of statutory maternity pay must include a pay rise made at any time before the end of maternity leave.

  • Maternity rights: gap in the law highlighted

    Date:

    1 May 2004

    The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that a woman who receives a pay rise at any time before the end of her maternity leave must receive the benefit of this in the earnings-related part of her maternity pay.

  • Case round up: incorporated contract terms; and calculating statutory maternity pay

    Date:

    20 April 2004

    This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering: incorporated contract terms; and calculating statutory maternity pay.

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  Allen v Hounga and other appeals EAT/0326/10 (1 report relating to this case)

  In Hounga v Allen and another [2014] IRLR 811 SC, the Supreme Court held that the claimant's case for race discrimination could proceed.

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 June 2011

    Claire Benson is managing associate and Helen Corbett, Sinead Jones, Helen Ward and Tori O'Neil are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

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  Anderson and others v London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority [2013] EWCA Civ 321 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case of the week: Loosely drafted collective agreement did not allow lower pay increase

    Date:

    20 June 2013

    In DLA Piper's case of the week, Anderson and others v London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority, the Court of Appeal considered whether or not uncertain wording in a collective agreement allowed an employer to give staff a lower pay increase than in previous years.

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  Anderson and others v London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority EAT/0505/11 (1 report relating to this case)

  The Court of Appeal allowed the appeal in this case in Anderson and others v London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority [2013] EWCA Civ 321 CA.

  • Case of the week: Pay agreements

    Date:

    24 October 2012

    This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers pay agreements.

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  Arora v Rockwell Automation Ltd [2006] All ER (D) 112 (May) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up: Time limits for making tribunal claims

    Date:

    13 June 2006

    This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering time limits for making tribunal claims.