Tribunal's literal interpretation of long-term disability scheme was correct

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  Bridgewater Paper Company Ltd v Hillyer and another EAT/0376/09 (1 other report)

  • Incapability: Employees were not entitled to payments under disability scheme if able to work elsewhere

    Date:

    25 July 2011

    In Bridgewater Paper Company Ltd v Hillyer and another EAT/0376/09, the EAT held that the employment tribunal erred in interpreting a long-term disability benefit scheme as meaning that employees were entitled to receive payments on the basis that they were no longer fit to work for the employing company, even if they would have been fit to work in a different environment.