Articles tagged as Employment Law
Latest Law Papers tagged as Employment Law
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Herbert Morris Ltd v Saxelby [1916] 1 AC 688
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The House of Lords refused a seven-year restraint that sought to prevent a former employee from using his acquired engineering skills in competition with his employer. ...
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Leeds Rugby Ltd v Harris [2005] EWHC 1591 (QB)
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Leeds Rugby v Harris [2005] EWHC 1591 (QB): the return option, consideration, contractual certainty and reasonable restraint of trade. ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Stevenson Jordan & Harrison Ltd v Macdonald & Evans [1952] 1 TLR 101
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The Court of Appeal distinguished an author’s lecture material from work created in the course of employment when deciding ownership of copyright in a book. ...
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Majrowski v Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust [2006] UKHL 34
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Majrowski confirmed that employers can be vicariously liable for harassment under the 1997 Act. The House of Lords restored the claim for trial without deciding that harassment had been proved. ...
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URBSFA v Bosman (C-415/93), ECLI:EU:C:1995:463
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Bosman held that post-contract fees obstructing a player’s move between Member States, and nationality quotas in club matches, breached free movement of workers. ...
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O’Neill v Dominick Healy & Sons Ltd [2013] NIIT 653_13IT
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The tribunal dismissed a constructive-dismissal claim after distinguishing inappropriate workplace remarks, affirmation of the employment contract and a later dispute about funeral arrangements. ...
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Augustine v Data Cars Limited [2026] UKSC 30
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Warren Augustine, a part-time private-hire driver, paid the same fixed weekly fee for access to his employer’s booking system as drivers who worked many more hours. The Supreme Court held that, under the Part-Time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000, he did not have to prove that part-time status was the only reason […] ...
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National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers and another v Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive T/A Nexus [2024] UKSC 37
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A 2012 letter recording a collective agreement on Metro staff pay was interpreted as increasing a shift allowance as well as basic pay. The Supreme Court held that the letter can in principle be rectified for mistake even though the collective agreement is not itself a legally enforceable contract, but Nexus had sued the unions […] ...
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Secretary of State for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs v Public and Commercial Services Union [2024] UKSC 41
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Civil servants’ contracts entitled them to have union subscriptions deducted from salary and paid to their union under check-off arrangements. When three Government departments withdrew those arrangements, the Supreme Court held that the Public and Commercial Services Union could enforce the check-off term in its own right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act […] ...
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Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and another v Agnew and others [2023] UKSC 33
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An employer calculated holiday pay using basic pay even when employees regularly earned overtime. Because holidays were sometimes more than three months apart, the employer argued that earlier underpayments could no longer be claimed. The Supreme Court distinguished the deadline for bringing a complaint from the question of which underpayments belong to a single series. […] ...
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Independent Workers Union of Great Britain v Central Arbitration Committee and another [2023] UKSC 43
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Deliveroo riders in one London delivery zone asked for their union to be recognised for collective bargaining. The riders could send someone else to do a delivery, even after accepting it. The Supreme Court examined whether that freedom was genuine in practice and what it meant for the trade-union rights protected by Article 11. A […] ...
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Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake [2021] UKSC 8
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A worker can be required to spend the night at work without every hour counting towards the national minimum wage. The distinction in these two care-worker appeals was between a shift spent working and a sleep-in during which the worker was expected to sleep but had to respond if needed. The two arrangements Mrs Tomlinson-Blake […] ...
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Asda Stores Ltd v Brierley and others [2021] UKSC 10
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Asda’s store staff, predominantly women, sought to compare their pay with that of predominantly male distribution staff at separate depots. Before a tribunal could consider whether their work was of equal value, it had to decide whether workers at those depots could serve as comparators at all. The two groups worked under different pay arrangements. […] ...
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Uber BV and others v Aslam and others [2021] UKSC 5
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Uber’s terms described its drivers as independent businesses serving passengers. The employment tribunal had to decide who actually set the price, controlled access to bookings and could end the relationship. Those practical questions mattered both to the drivers’ statutory protection and to which hours counted. The dispute The tribunal concentrated on two London private hire […] ...
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Royal Mail Group Ltd v Efobi [2021] UKSC 33
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Royal Mail did not call the recruiters who had turned down Mr Efobi’s applications. Could their absence supply the evidence needed to shift the burden of proof in a race discrimination claim? The answer turned on what the tribunal could infer from all the evidence it had. The applications and the appeals Mr Efobi, a […] ...
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Anwar v The Advocate General for Scotland [2021] UKSC 44
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Ms Anwar had already won her workplace harassment claim. Her difficulty was collecting the award. She argued that EU law required the Scottish employment tribunal itself to be able to preserve assets while a claim was pending, rather than requiring a separate application in another court. The claim This appeal arose from Ms Anwar’s petition […] ...
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Kostal UK Ltd v Dunkley and others [2021] UKSC 47
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The Supreme Court held that Kostal UK Ltd could not lawfully offer new pay terms directly to Unite members while the collective bargaining procedure agreed with the union was still continuing. Those offers had the “prohibited result” in section 145B of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992. The workers’ appeal was allowed, […] ...
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Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd [2019] UKSC 32
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Ms Tillman wished to join a competitor within six months of leaving Egon Zehnder Ltd. A covenant barred her from being “interested” in a competing business. The Supreme Court held that this word unreasonably prohibited even a minority shareholding, but that it could be severed so the remainder of the covenant survived and restrained her […] ...
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Gilham v Ministry of Justice [2019] UKSC 44
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A district judge who raised concerns about court cuts was not, on the ordinary wording of the Employment Rights Act 1996, a “worker” or a person in Crown employment, so its whistle-blowing protection did not apply to her. The Supreme Court held that excluding judges from that protection discriminated against them in the enjoyment of […] ...
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Royal Mail Group Ltd v Jhuti [2019] UKSC 55
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Ms Jhuti reported a concern that a colleague was offering incentives contrary to regulatory guidance and company policy. Her line manager then created a false picture of poor performance, and another manager, acting on that picture in good faith, dismissed her. The Supreme Court held that the reason for the dismissal was the hidden whistleblowing […] ...
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Miller and others v Ministry of Justice [2019] UKSC 60
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Four fee-paid part-time judges presented pension claims more than three months after particular appointments ended, but within three months of retirement. The Supreme Court held that the less favourable treatment of failing to pay a pension occurred at retirement, so the claims were not out of time under the Part-time Workers Regulations. The claims and […] ...
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HM Inspector of Health and Safety v Chevron North Sea Limited [2018] UKSC 7
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The Supreme Court held that an employment tribunal hearing an appeal against a prohibition notice may consider evidence obtained after the notice was served, provided it concerns the risk existing at that time. Later testing of Chevron’s helideck access metalwork could therefore be used to show that corrosion had not in fact created a risk […] ...
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Reilly v Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council [2018] UKSC 16
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A head teacher failed to tell her governors that a close friend had been convicted of an offence involving indecent images of children. The employment tribunal found that her dismissal was procedurally unfair but that she could reasonably have been dismissed for the non-disclosure. Her Supreme Court appeal concerned that second finding. What the governors […] ...
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Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v Haywood [2018] UKSC 22
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The Supreme Court held that, unless the contract says otherwise, written notice of dismissal posted to an employee’s home takes effect only when the employee reads it or has a reasonable opportunity to do so. Mrs Haywood read the recorded-delivery letter on 27 April 2011 after returning from holiday, so her 12 weeks’ notice expired […] ...
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Pimlico Plumbers Ltd and another v Smith [2018] UKSC 29
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The Supreme Court dismissed Pimlico Plumbers’ appeal and held that the employment tribunal was entitled to find that Mr Smith was a “limb (b) worker”. His claims for unlawful deductions, unpaid statutory leave and disability discrimination may therefore proceed, although he was not an employee and cannot pursue unfair dismissal. Between August 2005 and April […] ...
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