Pregnant fixed-term workers gain protection of the law
This report relates to 7 case(s)
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Barlow v Southwark London Borough Council [2001] All ER (D) 360 (Oct) EAT (0 other reports)
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Callagan v Glasgow City Council [2001] IRLR 724 EAT
(1 other report)
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- 14 January 2002
In Callagan v Glasgow City Council, the EAT upholds an employment tribunal's decision that an employer was justified, within the meaning of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, in dismissing a disabled employee who had a poor attendance record.
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Cruickshank v VAW Motorcast Ltd [2002] IRLR 24 EAT
(2 other reports)
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- 1 February 2002
In Cruickshank v VAW Motorcast Ltd (25 October 2001), the EAT rules that where the effects of an impairment on ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities are exacerbated by conditions at work, a tribunal should consider whether the impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on the employee's ability to perform normal day-to-day activities both while actually at work and while not at work.
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- 13 November 2001
This week's case roundup, covering disability discrimination and a pregnancy related dismissal.
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Duru v Granada Retail Catering Ltd [2001] All ER (D) 97 (Jul) EAT
(1 other report)
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Hogan v Cambridgeshire County Council [2001] All ER (D) 482 (Jul) EAT
(3 other reports)
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- 15 January 2002
Continuing our regular series on the implications of recent significant cases. James Humphery, partner at Trethowans Solicitors, Southhampton, looks at the issues.
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- 27 November 2001
This week's case roundup, covering frustration of a contract as a result of long-term sickness and settling claims.
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- 1 November 2001
In Hogan v Cambridgeshire County Council, the EAT upheld the finding of an employment tribunal that an employee's contract of employment had been frustrated by long-term incapacity due to sickness.
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London Clubs Management Ltd v Hood [2001] IRLR 719 EAT
(2 other reports)
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- 11 February 2002
In London Clubs Management Ltd v Hood, the EAT holds that an employer's failure to continue to pay a disabled employee contractual sick pay for his sickness absences from work was not for a reason relating to his disability and so did not amount to discriminatory treatment under the statutory provisions.
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- 6 November 2001
This week's case roundup, covering what constitutes constructive dismissal and reasonable adjustments within disability discrimination.
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Tele Danmark A/S v Handels- og Kontorfunktionaerernes Forbund i Danmark (HK), acting on behalf of Brandt-Nielsen [2001] IRLR 853 ECJ
(7 other reports)
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- 14 January 2002
In Jiménez Melgar v Ayuntamiento de Los Barrios and Tele Danmark A/S v Handels-og Kontorfunktionærernes Forbund i Danmark (HK) (acting for Brandt-Nielsen), the European Court of Justice holds that the prohibitions against the dismissal of pregnant workers, women who have recently given birth and breastfeeding mothers on the ground of their condition, as laid down in the Pregnant Workers' and Equal Treatment Directives, also applied in the case of such women who were employed under fixed-term contracts.
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- 1 January 2002
In Tele Danmark v HK (acting on behalf of Brandt-Nielsen) (4 October 2001), the European Court of Justice rules that a woman is protected under EU law from being dismissed on pregnancy grounds even where because of her pregnancy she is unable to work during a substantial part of the term of a short-term contract.
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- 17 December 2001
Temporary workers who are pregnant when they apply for a job or who become pregnant while doing it have won the right to the same protection as permanent employees under the Pregnant Workers' and Equal Treatment Directives.
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- 1 December 2001
In our latest round-up of decisions of the European Court of Justice, we focus on working time, pregnancy-related dismissals in the context of temporary working, further developments in case law on the meaning of a transfer for the purposes of the business transfers Directive and, finally, health and safety in relation to display screen equipment.
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- 27 November 2001
A known state of pregnancy does not protect employers from discrimination liability - even if witheld at interview
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- 13 November 2001
This week's case roundup, covering disability discrimination and a pregnancy related dismissal.
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- 6 November 2001
A recent European ruling found in favour of a fixed-term worker dismissed on the grounds of her pregnancy
In a landmark ruling, a worker was unlawfully dismissed even
though she hid her pregnancy at interview and was unable to fulfil most of her
contract. Plus cases on when sickness-related dismissal will be safe from
disability discrimination claims, and how not to conduct an unfair dismissal
settlement.
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