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Unfair dismissal: ill-health retirement

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 3 2008

An employer unfairly dismissed an employee as it did not properly consider whether the employee was entitled to ill-health retirement before dismissing him

Increase in compensation limits

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 2 2008

The new compensation limits for 2008 have been announced and will apply to all claims where the appropriate date is on or after 1 February 2008

Will shareholders vote with their mouse?

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 28 2007

With almost every aspect of business life transformed in recent years by e-commerce, the good old AGM and the accompanying telephone book sized shareholder voting pack seem like a throwback to the days of ink wells and pens made out of feathers

Government response to Equality Bill

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 23 2008

The Government has published its response to the consultation on the Equality Bill, which proposes to consolidate and strengthen existing discrimination law into one Act of Parliament

Women win equal pay claims

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 31 2008

Women employed by councils in the North East of England have won their long-running equal pay claims in the Court of Appeal

Justifying age discrimination

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 24 2008

The Employment Appeal Tribunal in the case of MacCulloch v ICI has given guidance on justifying age discrimination

Holiday entitlement during sick leave

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • European Union
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  • January 31 2008

Advocate General's opinion (pending a final decision of the ECJ) is that workers on sick leave do accrue statutory holiday entitlement

Court v Dennis Publishing Ltd (2007): selection for redundancy

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 22 2008

This case highlights the factors that a tribunal will consider when deciding whether to draw an inference of age discrimination

Johns v Solent SD Limited (2007): cases to be stayed

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 22 2008

In the above case the EAT stayed a claim of age discrimination and unfair dismissal pending the ECJ’s decision on the legality of the UK default retirement age of 65 (due in 2009

Where equal rights collide

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 22 2008

Equality and diversity make headline news