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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Date:
- 1 September 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Claire Benson is managing associate and Caroline Jacobs and Chris McAvoy are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.
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- Type:
- Policies and procedures
A model statement at the beginning of a staff handbook to cover administrative issues such as how your organisation will communicate changes to the handbook to staff.
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- Date:
- 11 July 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, when considering whether or not a dismissal for refusing to take a pay cut was fair for "some other substantial reason", the employment tribunal should look at the reasonableness of the employer's decision to dismiss, not whether or not the employee was reasonable in refusing the reduction in wages.
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- Date:
- 1 June 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
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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- Date:
- 19 May 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This case demonstrates the importance of employers complying with the terms of contractual staff handbooks and dealing with grievance appeals properly.
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- Date:
- 4 May 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This case is a good example of how the terms of a staff handbook that is stated to be non-contractual can still be incorporated into an employee's contract of employment.
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- Date:
- 6 April 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Malone and others v British Airways Plc [2011] IRLR 32 CA, the Court of Appeal held that the provisions of a collective agreement that purported to set "minimum" cabin crew numbers for different routes and types of aircraft were not incorporated into individual employees' contracts of employment. The provisions amounted to a collective undertaking to operate with minimum numbers so as to protect jobs and guard against excessive workloads, and were binding in honour only.
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- Date:
- 4 April 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Supreme Court has held that it was objectively justified to employ teachers on successive fixed-term contracts amounting to nine years in total, and that these contracts were not converted into permanent contracts.
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- Date:
- 1 March 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Lancaster University v University and College Union [2011] IRLR 4 EAT, the EAT held that the university failed to comply with its statutory obligations to consult collectively on the expiry of fixed-term contracts. The tribunal was also entitled to make a protective award of 60 days' pay.