All items: Meaning of employment

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  Al-Ani v Robertson and others [1996] IT/17831/96 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Pupillage is not training for employment

    Date:

    1 March 1997

    In Al-Ani v Robertson and others a London North industrial tribunal (Chair: S T Gill) rules that it does not have jurisdiction to hear a race discrimination claim under s. 13 of the Race Relations Act 1976 (RRA) arising from the refusal of a barrister's pupillage, because the provision of pupillage is not training directed to fit the pupil for "employment".

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  Amos-Abanyie v Bradford Metropolitan District Council [1993] IT/62373/92 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Green light for foster carer to bring race claim

    Date:

    1 March 1994

    In Amos-Abanyie v Bradford Metropolitan District Council a Leeds industrial tribunal (Chair: P A Morris) rules that it has jurisdiction to hear complaints brought by a foster carer that she had been racially discriminated against by Bradford Council.

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  Armitage v (1) Relate (2) Heller (3) National Relate [1994] IT/43538/94 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Relate counsellor covered by RRA

    Date:

    1 December 1995

    In Armitage v (1) Relate (2) Heller (3) National Relate a Middlesborough industrial tribunal (Chair: N W Garside) holds that a volunteer counsellor with the marriage guidance organisation, Relate, is in "employment" and is therefore protected against discrimination on the grounds of race by the Race Relations Act

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  Franklin v The Home Office and others EAT/1225/98 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Race discrimination: Appointment to Police Complaints Authority is not "employment"

    Date:

    1 December 1999

    An application for appointment to the Police Complaints Authority was an application seeking appointment to a statutory office, not an application for employment within the meaning of the Race Relations Act 1976, holds the EAT in Franklin v The Home Office and others.

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  Hill Samuel Investment Services Group Ltd v Nwauzu EAT/582/93, 88/94, 87/94 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Race discrimination: Self-employed insurance agent covered by RRA

    Date:

    1 October 1994

    A representative taken on by an investment services company to sell its insurance and pensions to the public, with remuneration on a commission-only basis, was in the company's employment for the purposes of the Race Relations Act 1976, holds the EAT in Hill Samuel Investment Services Group Ltd v Nwauzu.

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  Kotecha v Insurety plc & Capital Healthcare and others EAT/0969/01 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employment status: Tribunal failed to consider meaning of "employment" under RRA

    Date:

    15 December 2002

    In Kotecha v Insurety plc & Capital Healthcare and others, the EAT holds that an employment tribunal erred in law in failing to apply the correct legal test to a determination of what amounts to "employment" within the meaning of the Race Relations Act 1976, and had wrongly concluded that an applicant could not bring a claim for race discrimination because he was not an "employee" or a "worker" within the meaning of the Employment Rights Act 1996.

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  Maxwell v Holmes (Lord Chancellor's Department) [1995] IT/29941/94 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Immigration adjudicator not protected against race bias

    Date:

    1 June 1995

    In Maxwell v Holmes (Lord Chancellor's Department) a London (North) industrial tribunal (Chair: G E Heggs) rules that it has no jurisdiction to hear an immigration adjudicator's complaint that the failure to renew his appointment was racial discrimination because he was the holder of a statutory office.

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  Mingeley v Pennock and Ivory t/a Amber Cars [2004] IRLR 373 CA (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Race discrimination: Taxi driver not employee within meaning of RRA

    Date:

    23 July 2004

    In Mingeley v Pennock and Ivory t/a Amber Cars, the Court of Appeal held that a taxi driver was not in an employment relationship with the proprietors of the taxi firm for which he worked for the purposes of the Race Relations Act 1976.

  • Case round-up: employment status in race equality cases and unfair dismissal awards

    Date:

    24 February 2004

    This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering: employment status in race equality cases and unfair dismissal awards.