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- Date:
- 24 December 2004
- Type:
- Law reports
In Coutts & Co plc v Cure; Royal Bank of Scotland v Fraser, the EAT holds that, in a case where an employer refused to pay a non-contractual bonus to all non-permanent employees, including some fixed-term workers, the tribunal did not err in law by holding that the reason for the less favourable treatment was on the ground of the employees' status as fixed-term workers.
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Date:
- 23 January 2004
- Type:
- Law reports
In Commerzbank AG v Price, the Court of Appeal holds that a High Court judge erred in his construction of employment documents which, properly construed, guaranteed the employee only one bonus payment for the year in question, and not the two that he had in fact been paid.
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- Date:
- 6 January 2004
- Type:
- Law reports
This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering: recovering bonuses paid in error; and posted workers' rights on termination.
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- Date:
- 22 April 2003
- Type:
- Law reports
This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering: transparency of incentive schemes; and time limits for making discrimination claims.
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- Date:
- 1 August 2001
- Type:
- Law reports
In Chequepoint (UK) Ltd v Radwan, the Court of Appeal upholds an employment tribunal's award of damages to a dismissed employee in respect of unpaid bonuses.
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- Date:
- 1 June 2001
- Type:
- Law reports
In Bower v Schroder Securities Ltd a Stratford employment tribunal (Chair: V K Gay) has found that an equities analyst was discriminated against on grounds of sex when she was paid a bonus which was much less than that given to male colleagues, and that she was also discriminated against in respect her constructive dismissal.
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- Date:
- 1 March 2001
- Type:
- Law reports
A London Central employment tribunal (Chair: T J Mason) in O'Neill v HSBC Bank plc finds that a bank's "Let's Reward Success" scheme was a performance-related pay scheme within the meaning of the Disability Discrimination (Employment) Regulations, even though it took account of absence from work.
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- Date:
- 15 October 2000
- Type:
- Law reports
A contractual discretion whether or not to award an equity trader any, and if so what, bonus, which was "dependent upon individual performance", was one that had to be exercised both by reference to an assessment of performance of the trader's contract and not irrationally or perversely, holds the High Court in Clark v Nomura International plc.
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- Date:
- 1 December 1999
- Type:
- Law reports
In Lewen v Denda the European Court of Justice has ruled that whether an employee on parental leave is entitled under Article 119 of the EC Treaty (now Article 141) to a Christmas bonus depends on whether it is properly seen as pay for work performed or whether it is to encourage those in active employment to work hard in forthcoming months.
