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- Date:
- 18 July 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Blundell v The Governing Body of St Andrew's Catholic Primary School and another EAT/0329/06 the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that a teacher returning to work following maternity leave was not entitled to return to the same class that she had been teaching when her maternity leave began.
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- Date:
- 14 May 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Madarassy v Nomura International plc [2007] IRLR 246, the Court of Appeal has held that a "possibility" of discrimination arising only from a difference in gender and a difference in treatment is not, without more, sufficient to support an inference of unlawful discrimination, thereby shifting the burden of proof to the employer.
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- Date:
- 1 April 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The High Court has found that the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, as amended, does not give full effect to the revised EC Equal Treatment Directive, in Equal Opportunities Commission v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (12 March 2007).
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- Date:
- 17 November 2006
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Moyhing v Barts and London NHS Trust EAT/0085/06, the Employment Appeal Tribunal holds that an employer's policy of chaperoning male nurses carrying out intimate procedures on female patients was sex discrimination. The claimant was entitled to feel that the policy subjected him to a detriment.
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- Date:
- 7 July 2006
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In New Southern Railway Ltd v Quinn [2006] IRLR 606 EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal holds that an employer's duty to take steps to "avoid" risk to a pregnant woman means that the risk should be reduced to its lowest acceptable level - not that it must be removed completely.
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- Date:
- 27 June 2006
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering sex discrimination.
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- Date:
- 23 June 2006
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Hoyland v Asda Stores Ltd [2006] All ER (D) 133 CS, the Court of Session holds that despite being described as "discretionary" a bonus scheme was "regulated" by the employee's contract of employment and therefore fell outside the scope of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.
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- Date:
- 6 June 2006
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering: constructive dismissal compensation; and injury to feelings awards.
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- Date:
- 7 April 2006
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Percy v Church of Scotland Board of National Mission, the House of Lords holds that a church minister who had entered into a contract personally to execute work or labour was an "employee" for the purposes of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975.
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- Date:
- 1 February 2006
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Bess Sturman and Richard Port of Addleshaw Goddard outline the latest legal rulings and explain what you need to know to avoid tribunals.