Cases - Employment Appeal Tribunal
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Akyeampong v (1) Barclays Bank Plc (2) Chagger (3) Stew - refusal of extension of time to appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal - EAT 2.4.08
03/06/08
The Registrar of the EAT refused to allow Mr Akyeampong a one day extension of time to lodge an appeal (against a strike-out by an employment judge).
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Capita Health Solutions v (1) British Broadcasting Corporation (2) McLean - if employment continued after TUPE transfer there cannot have been a valid objection, under TUPE, to that transfer - EAT 1.5.08
03/06/08
BBC transferred its occupational health (OH) department to Capita as of 1 April 2006.
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City of Edinburgh Council v Wood - tribunal substituted its own view rather than considering range of reasonable responses - EAT 2.5.08
03/06/08
After a period of dissatisfaction when he had put in a grievance, Mr Wood was disciplined for gross misconduct in the form of abusive comments and, as a penalty, moved to work at a different establishment.
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Abbey Cars (West Horndon) Ltd v Ford - breach must be sufficiently serious as to be fundamental, but it can then be just one of many reasons causing resignation and still found a constructive dismissal claim - EAT 23.5.08
29/05/08
Mr Ford went off sick, and once fit, he resigned. He gave his reasons as being 8 incidents of bad treatment by Abbey.
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Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery NHS Trust v Bewdley - equal pay claim for a period before comparator was appointed cannot rely on successor as a comparator; that would be too hypothetical - EAT 23.5.08
29/05/08
Ms Bewley brought a claim for equal pay. An employment tribunal held that she was entitled to compare herself with males employed contemporaneously with her.
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North Lanarkshire Council v Cowan - if an employer's attempt to vary a contract is not effective then all its old terms still apply: the employee cannot pick and choose - EAT 29.4.08
05/06/08
Mr Cowan's claim was a test case for 52 such claims.
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Rawson v Doncaster NHS Primary Care Trust - question of whether it is just and equitable to extend time must be considered as factor when considering whether to allow amendment to admit a new claim - EAT 11.4.08
05/06/08
Mrs Rawson brought claims of unfair dismissal and whistleblowing against Doncaster NHS.
