The latest decisions from employment tribunals on the cases that matter to you
Sex discrimination
Hawkins v Atex Group Ltd and others [2012] All ER (D) 71 (Apr)
In 2004, the employee’s husband became CEO of Atex. From September 2006, the employee provided HR and marketing services to Atex through a company jointly owned by herself and her husband. In...
Religious discrimination
Saini and others v Bungay and another [2012] All ER (D) 40 (Mar)
The claimants worked for the third defendant not-for-profit advice centre. The second claimant was summarily dismissed in July 2007, purportedly on grounds of gross misconduct. The first...
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Racial discrimination
Bahous v Pizza Express Restaurant Ltd [2012] All ER (D) 191 (Jan)
The employee worked as a waiter. He was a British citizen of Moroccan origin. In July 2009, the employer asked the employee to produce his passport under threat of suspension. The employee had...
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Equal pay
Secretary of State for Justice (sued as national offenders management service) v Bowling [2012] All ER (D) 13 (Jan)
In August 2008, the employee (B) started working in a shared service centre operated by the prison service. Her job title was Service Desk User Support Team...
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Race discrimination
Adegbuji v Meteor Parking Ltd [2011] All ER (D) 39 (Dec)
The employee had sought to bring claims, inter alia, of race discrimination before the employment tribunal (the tribunal). The employer had taken the point that no grievance had been lodged by the employee and...
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Victimisation
Mulvie v St John Ambulance [2011] All ER (D) 18 (Oct)
The employee was Director of Fundraising from 1 July 1999 until he resigned from his employment on 12 February 2010 with immediate effect. That resignation had followed his receipt of a letter from the employer dated 12...
TUPE regulations
Hamshaw and others v Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust [2011] All ER (D) 24 (Sep)
The employer, an NHS Trust (the Trust), ran a residential facility (the care home). In 2008, it entered into negotiations for a scheme described as a “multi-agency commission led...
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Unfair dismissal
Macquet v Naiade Resorts (UK) Ltd [2011] All ER (D) 74 (Aug)
The employee was Marketing Communication Manager for Europe. In January 2009 AD was appointed as the Global Marketing Communication Manager with effect from 1 March 2009. In February 2009 the employee was informed that...
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Indirect discrimination
Norouzi v Sheffield City Council [2011] All ER (D) 77 (Aug)
The employee was of Iranian origin. He was employed as a residential social worker at a home for troubled young people. One of the children at the home, A, was regularly offensive to him on racial grounds. The...
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Sex discrimination
Small v Barking Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust [2011] All ER (D) 18 (Jun)
The employee was a black woman of Afro-Caribbean origin, who had been employed as a nurse from 1989. In 2007, the employee took sick leave for several months. She cited multiple pregnancy related...
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Sex discrimination
Deer v Walford and another [2011] All ER (D) 58 (May)
The appellant was an academic. She did her D. Phil. in the Department of Education at the second respondent Oxford University (the university). Her academic supervisor was the first respondent. In 2007, the...
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Race discrimination
Parmer v East Leicester Medical Practice [2011] All ER (D) 92 (Apr)
On 24 June 2008, the employee, who was a doctor, commenced proceedings against the employers, a GP partnership, under the Race Relations Act 1976. For the purpose of those proceedings the employers...
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Breach of contract
Hopkins and another v South Manchester Abbeyfield Society Ltd [2011] All ER (D) 72 (Mar)
The employees worked as Deputy Housekeeper and Housekeeper at the employer’s sheltered accommodation. The Housekeeper worked 37.5 hours per week but she was required to...
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Collective bargaining
Roadchef Motorways Ltd v GMB and another [2011] All ER (D) 78 (Feb)
GMB was a trade union (the union). In 2002, the union and the company entered into a partnership agreement (the agreement). It purported to recognise the union as the sole body to...
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Working conditions
Nicolaou v Arriva London South Ltd [2011] All ER (D) 22 (Jan)
The employee worked for the employer as a bus driver from 1998. In 2008, the employer introduced a policy which provided that additional working time, in the form of working designated rest days, would...
