Employment Rights in UK Law
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Lawson v Serco Ltd; Botham v Ministry of Defence; Crofts v Veta Ltd
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Putting the question in the traditional terms of the conflict of laws, what connection between Great Britain and the employment relationship is required to make section 94(1) the appropriate choice of law in deciding whether and in what circumstances an employee can complain that his dismissal was unfair?
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Stringfellow Restaurants Ltd v Nadine Quashie
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An issue that arises in this case is the significance of mutuality of obligation in the employment contract. Every bilateral contract requires mutual obligations; they constitute the consideration from each party necessary to create the contract. Typically an employment contract will be for a fixed or indefinite duration, and one of the obligations will be to keep the relationship in place until it is lawfully severed, usually by termination on notice.
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Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Bottrill
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If the tribunal concludes that the contract is not a sham, it is likely to wish to consider next whether the contract, which may well have been labelled a contract of employment, actually gave rise to an employer/employee relationship. This is not the same question as that relating to whether there is a controlling shareholding. This is not the same question as that relating to whether there is a controlling shareholding.
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Express & Echo Publications Ltd v Tanton
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Of course, it is important that the Industrial Tribunal should be alert in this area of the law to look at the reality of any obligations. If there is a term that is inherently inconsistent with the existence of a contract of employment, what actually happened from time to time may not be decisive, given the existence of that term.
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Copsey v WWB Devon Clays Ltd
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At the outset the limited context in which the Article 9 point arises should be stressed. It is an unfair dismissal claim brought in an employment tribunal against a private sector employer under the Employment Rights Act 1996 (the 1996 Act). The dismissal arose out of a dispute with the employer about the employee's working hours. In view of the some of the sweeping submissions made to the tribunals below and to this court, it should be made clear what the case is not about.
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HM Revenue and Customs v Stringer (sub nom Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Ainsworth)
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In these appeals, however, the parallel between the statutory right to paid annual leave and a contractual right to holidays with pay is to my mind much clearer and closer. It is not less close because of the Working Time Directive's emphasis on health and safety at work. Similar thinking has for many years informed the approach of responsible employers in framing contractual terms of employment. Moreover in each case the remedy would be an order for payment of the liquidated sum due.
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Western Excavating (ECC) Ltd v Sharp
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If theemployer is guilty of conduct which is a significant breach going to the root of the contract of employment; or which shows that the employer no longer intends to be bound by one or more of the essential terms of the contract; then the employee is entitled to treat himself as discharged from any further performance. If he does so, then he terminates the contract by reason of the employer's conduct.
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Individual statutory employment rights since 1997: constrained expansion
This article explores developments in statutory individual employment rights since the election of the Labour Government in 1997. It also discusses the mechanisms for the adjudication and enforceme...
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2. The Statutory Floor of Employment Rights: A Bad Case of Subsidence?
As we have indicated in the introductory section, the employment protection legislation was drafted principally with full‐time, permanent employees — so called “core workers”— in mind. The legislat...
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Agency Workers, Employment Rights and the Ebb and Flow of Freedom of Contract
This note discusses two Court of Appeal cases relating to the employment status of temporary agency workers, James v London Borough of Greenwich and Consistent Group v Kalwak. In James the Court co...
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Strength in Networks: Employment Rights Organizations and the Problem of Co‐Ordination
In recent decades, alternative organizations and movements —‘quasi‐unions’— have emerged to fill gaps in the US system of representation caused by union decline. We examine the record of quasi‐unio...
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Shares for employment rights
On 8 October 2012, the UK Government announced its plans for a new kind of employment contract called an “employee-owner”. Those employed under this sort of contract would exchange some of their U...
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New single enforcement body for employment rights
As part of the UK’s Government’s “Good Work Plan” to ensure fair and decent work for all, transparency and clarity of workers’ rights and effective enforcement of those rights, proposals for a sing...
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Chapter TCM0124060
...... would have qualified for maternity leave but for their self employment, or is absent from work during the first 13 weeks of an additional ... ordinary paternity leave period under Section 80A of the Employment Rights Act 1996 or Article 112A of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order ......
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Chapter NIM07016
.... . . Sections 66-68 and 70 Employment Rights Act 1996. A maternity suspension payment is earnings within the ......
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Chapter NIM07006
.... . . Sections 28 and 34 Employment Rights Act 1996. A guarantee payment is earnings within the definition in ......
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Chapter NIM07011
.... . . Sections 64 and 70 Employment Rights Act 1996. A medical suspension payment is earnings within the ......