Contracts of employment

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• Fair dismissal of Ministry of Defence worker who appeared as a medium while on sick leave

  Date:

  16 September 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  An employment tribunal has rejected the unfair dismissal claim of an employee who was caught making a public appearance as a medium while on sick leave.

• Refusal to allow employee to be accompanied by chosen companion at disciplinary investigation was breach of trust and confidence

  Date:

  24 August 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  The High Court has held that an employer breached its implied duty of trust and confidence towards an employee who was not allowed to be accompanied at a disciplinary investigation by his choice of companion.

• Case round-up

  Date:

  1 May 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  David Malamatenios is a partner, Colin Makin, Sandra Martins and Krishna Santra are senior associates, and Hinal Raichura is a trainee at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

• Can an employer change the terms and conditions of transferred employees if a certain amount of time has passed since the TUPE transfer?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Case round-up

  Date:

  1 April 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  James Buckley, Iain Naylor, Chris McAvoy and Lucy Sorell are associates and Mona Jackson is a trainee solicitor at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Case round-up

  Date:

  1 March 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  David Malamatenios is a partner, and Colin Makin and Krishna Santra are senior associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

• Breach of contract: Employer did not breach contract of employment when, due to financial constraints, it did not provide expected incremental pay increase

  Date:

  14 December 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Equality and Human Rights Commission v Earle [2014] IRLR 845 EAT, the EAT held that an employer did not breach the contract of employment when, in light of financial constraints, it decided not to give the incremental pay increase that the employee expected.

• Race discrimination: An employee's illegal immigration status did not operate as a bar to defeat her discrimination claims

  Date:

  3 December 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Hounga v Allen and another [2014] IRLR 811 SC, the Supreme Court held that a domestic worker who had knowingly entered the country illegally was entitled to claim discrimination against her employer despite the fact that her employment was unlawful.

• Case round-up

  Date:

  1 December 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  David Malamatenios is a partner and Krishna Santra and Colin Makin are senior associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

• HR's oral assurance over pay increase did not trump contract

  Date:

  30 September 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that an entire agreement clause was effective in precluding reliance on a prior oral assurance given by HR that salary would increase by annual increments subject to satisfactory performance.