“Europe’s top court has said that some employers can stop people as young as 30 from applying for some jobs because they are too old. UK Employment Tribunals will have to take account of the ruling in age discrimination cases, an expert said.”
OUT-LAW.com, 21st January 2010
Source: www.out-law.com
“Devout Christian Nadia Eweida is appealing today against a ruling which cleared British Airways of discriminating against her by asking her to stop wearing a cross at work.”
The Independent 19th January 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The government faces legal action for failing to protect people from discrimination at work, throwing doubt on any proposals for a new law on equality.”
The Guardian, 13th December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Seventeen illegal workers have been caught in Lincolnshire by the UK Border Agency as part of an ongoing campaign to crack down on rogue employers.”
UK Border Agency, 30th November 2009
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Spouses who are employed by MPs are preparing to look into legal action if they are barred from their jobs.”
BBC News, 27th October 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Employers will come under pressure to register staff with the Government’s anti-paedophile database even if they have little contact with children, the head of the scheme has said.”
Daily Telegraph, 26th October 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“An employer could be required, in proceedings in which an equal pay claim was brought, to provide objective justification for his use of a length of service criterion as well as its adoption in the first place.”
WLR Daily, 19th October 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“Companies that pay staff more for long service could be forced to scrap schemes after a landmark ruling that they might discriminate against women.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th October 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Old style sexism has ‘died a death’ in the city – so says the deputy chairman of fund management firm JO Hambro.”
BBC News, 18th October 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“New rules on tipping and service charges have come into force in the UK.”
BBC News, 30th September 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A raft of new government measures will ensure that resident workers can have every opportunity to fill vacancies before they are offered to workers abroad, the Home Secretary announced today.”
UK Border Agency, 7th September 2009
Source: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“Firms will have to advertise jobs in Britain for at least a month before they can offer them to workers from outside Europe.”
The Guardian, 7th September 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A gallery employee with Crohn’s disease who claimed managers failed to take her disability into account when they moved her from Tate Britain to Tate Modern had her case dismissed today.”
The Guardian, 14th August 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A disabled woman from north-west London has won her employment tribunal against clothing giant Abercrombie and Fitch.”
BBC News, 13th August 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Elizabeth Andrews, a gallery supervisor, has launched a claim for compensation against the Tate, saying that the cold, among a series of other factors, meant she became increasingly ill and eventually had to go on long-term sick leave.”
The Guardian, 10th August 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Junior doctors have won the right to a Judicial Review of the General Medical Council’s refusal to discipline senior colleagues they hold responsible for the training places debacle.”
Daily Telegraph, 27th July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Businesses could face a spate of legal claims from employees hit by swine flu, experts warn, as concerns mount that firms are not prepared to deal with legal issues arising from affected staff.”
The Guardian, 27th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Gutridge and others v Sodexo Ltd and another [2009] EWCA Civ 729; [2009] WLR (D) 246
WLR Daily, 17th July 2009
“An employee whose employment contract had been transferred under contracting-out arrangements to another employer could not have any greater rights against the transferee than she had against the transferor by virtue of reg 5 of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981. Although the right to bring proceedings under the Equal Pay Act 1970 was against the transferee, the right was, pursuant to ss 2(4) and 2ZA, time limited to six months after the termination of the employee’s employment with the transferor, which was six months after the date of the transfer.”
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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GISDA Cyf v Barratt [2009] EWCA Civ 648; [2009] WLR (D) 229
“The ‘effective date of termination of employment’ within section 97(1)(b) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 was not necessarily the date yielded by contractual analysis. When determining the relevant time limit for making an unfair dismissal claim, an employment tribunal had not erred in concluding that the effective date of termination of employment was when the employee read the letter of summary dismissal and not the date when the letter reached the employee’s home address when she was away.”
WLR Daily, 3rd July 2009
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