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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Date:
- 1 August 2010
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Ceri Hughes, David Parry, and Carly Mather, associates at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.
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- Date:
- 15 July 2010
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This case is a good example of a key issue in TUPE claims: whether or not an employee was assigned to the transferred undertaking.
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- Date:
- 28 June 2010
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Goode v Marks & Spencer plc EAT/0442/09, the EAT held that an employment tribunal was right to find that an employee had not been dismissed because of having made a protected disclosure. There had been no qualifying or protected disclosure, but merely an opinion expressed about the employer's proposal for changes to a discretionary enhanced redundancy scheme.
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- Date:
- 26 January 2010
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Cavendish Munro Professional Risks Management Ltd v Geduld [2010] IRLR 38 EAT, the EAT held that the employment tribunal erred in deciding that a solicitor's letter amounted to a qualifying disclosure for the purposes of s.43B of the Employment Rights Act 1996. The letter merely stated the employee's position in an ongoing dispute, without alleging any facts.
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- Date:
- 30 June 2008
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Kuzel v Roche Products Ltd [2008] IRLR 530, the Court of Appeal held that, having rejected the potentially fair reason for dismissal put forward by the employer, the tribunal was not obliged to accept the automatically unfair reason put forward by the employee. It was entitled to find that the employer had at least proved that this was not the reason for dismissal.
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- Date:
- 14 April 2008
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Atkins v Coyle Personnel plc EAT/0206/07, the EAT held that, for an employee to claim successfully that his dismissal was related to the fact that he had taken paternity leave, there must be a causal link between the dismissal and the leave.
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- Date:
- 27 February 2008
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This article looks at some of the important judgments in the area of the transfer of undertakings over the past year.
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- Date:
- 13 June 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Babula v Waltham Forest College [2007] IRLR 346 the Court of Appeal held that to qualify for protection from detriment or dismissal for whistleblowing, a worker must hold a "reasonable belief" that the information disclosed tends to show that a criminal offence will be committed or that there will be non-compliance with a legal obligation.
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- Date:
- 27 March 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This week's case of the week, provided by Covington & Burling, covers TUPE transfers.