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- Date:
- 19 April 2011
- Type:
- Law reports
The Court of Appeal has upheld a county court judgment that a term implied through custom and practice meant that an enhanced redundancy payment was conditional on the employee entering into a compromise agreement.
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- Date:
- 18 April 2011
- Type:
- Law reports
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that compromise agreements preventing employees from bringing equal pay claims against a council are valid, even though the employees had been advised by solicitors engaged by the council.
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- Date:
- 29 September 2010
- Type:
- Law reports
In Gibb v Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust [2010] IRLR 786 CA, the Court of Appeal held that a compromise agreement entered into by an NHS trust and its chief executive was not so irrationally generous as to be ultra vires, as subsequently argued by the trust.
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- Date:
- 22 July 2010
- Type:
- Law reports
Employers that do not come to a clear conclusion during compromise agreement negotiations can face liability, as this case demonstrates.
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- Date:
- 1 July 2010
- Type:
- Law reports
Niki Walker, managing associate at Addleshaw Goddard, details the latest rulings.
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- Date:
- 29 June 2010
- Type:
- Law reports
The Court of Appeal has held that an NHS trust was entitled to take into account a CEO's previous good record and negative prospects of obtaining future employment when making a severance payment.
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- Date:
- 13 July 2009
- Type:
- Law reports
In Kirklees Metropolitan Council v Radecki [2009] IRLR 555 CA, the Court of Appeal held that the contract of an employee with whom the employer was negotiating a compromise agreement terminated on the date that the employer stopped paying the employee, even though at that point the draft agreement had not been executed by the parties.
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- Date:
- 29 June 2009
- Type:
- Law reports
In McLean v TLC Marketing plc and others EAT/0429/08 & EAT/0430/08, the EAT held that, although a COT3 agreement could potentially preclude claims arising out of events occurring after its conclusion, very clear words would be required to achieve this result.
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- Date:
- 20 May 2009
- Type:
- Law reports
This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers the enforceability of compromise agreements.
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- Date:
- 27 April 2009
- Type:
- Law reports
The Court of Appeal has held that the removal of an employee from the payroll while he was suspended and negotiating a compromise agreement was sufficient to establish an effective date of termination for unfair dismissal purposes.
