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  • Date:
    15 January 1997
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Wrongful dismissal: Damages awarded for loss of salary increases

    The service contract of a company chief executive imposed a contractual obligation on his employer to review and provide an annual upward adjustment in salary, holds the High Court in Clark v BET plc and another.

  • Date:
    15 November 1996
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Contracts of employment: Term implied to entitle employee to permanent health insurance

    In Aspden v Webbs Poultry & Meat Group (Holdings) Ltd, the High Court implies a term into an employee's contract of employment providing that, save for summary dismissal, the employer would not terminate the contract while the employee was incapacitated for work.

  • Date:
    15 July 1996
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Contracts of employment: Restrictive covenants enforced after garden leave

    There is no legal basis on which a court can, in enforcing a restrictive covenant by injunction, allow some kind of set-off against the period during which the employee has been on garden leave, holds the Court of Appeal in Armstrong and others v Credit Suisse Asset Management Ltd.

  • Date:
    15 June 1996
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Contracts of employment: No mobility clause in shop worker's contract

    In Aparau v Iceland Frozen Foods plc the EAT overturns an industrial tribunal's decision that there was an express or implied term in an employee's contract of employment entitling the employer to move her, against her will, from one branch of its food stores to another.

  • Date:
    15 June 1996
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Implied terms: No implied contractual right to enhanced redundancy pay

    In Quinn and others v Calder Industrial Materials Ltd the EAT upholds an industrial tribunal's ruling that the employer was not in breach of contract by failing to make enhanced redundancy payments to redundant employees.

  • Date:
    1 January 1996
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Alliance Paper Group Plc v Prestwich [1996] IRLR 25 HC

    In Alliance Paper Group Plc v Prestwich [1996] IRLR 25 HC, the High Court held that the employer was entitled to enforce a covenant restraining the employee from poaching staff who had been employed by the employer "in a senior capacity".

  • Date:
    1 December 1995
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Contracts of employment: Failure to provide grievance procedure is breach of contract

    It is an implied term of every employee's contract of employment that their employer will reasonably and promptly afford them a reasonable opportunity to obtain redress of any grievance they may have, holds the EAT in WA Goold (Pearmak) Ltd v McConnell and another.

  • Date:
    1 January 1995
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Contracts of employment: Lavish customer connection justifies "garden leave"

    A lavish and expensive customer connection which has been developed by an employee at his employer's expense is part of the latter's goodwill, and is something which it is entitled to protect, holds the High Court in Euro Brokers Ltd v Rabey.

  • Date:
    1 March 1993
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Contracts of employment: Right to suspend must be exercised reasonably

    There is no general contractual obligation on an employer to act reasonably or fairly, holds the High Court in McClory & others v The Post Office. In relation to an express power to suspend an employee, however, there is an implied term that an employer will not exercise that right on unreasonable grounds.

  • Date:
    15 January 1992
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Contracts of employment: Employer obliged to notify employees of contingent rights

    In some circumstances, an employer is under an implied obligation to notify its employees of any rights which they have under their contracts of employment which are dependent upon them taking some sort of action, rules the House of Lords in Scally and others v Southern Health and Social Services Board and others.

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