Parkins v Sodexho
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Date | 2002 |
| Year | 2002 |
| Court | Employment Appeal Tribunal |
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67 cases
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Karen Kilraine v London Borough of Wandsworth
...information disclosed, and any allegation contained in it, are substantially true. …” 3 Section 43B(1)(b) was interpreted by the EAT in Parkins v Sodexho [2002] IRLR 109 to cover a disclosure made by an employee about what he reasonably believed was a breach of his contract of employment. S......
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Mr W G A Jasper v Moo Free Ltd: 1403106/2020
...inserted into section 43B(1) of the ERA by the 2013 Act, this phrase was intended to reverse the effect of Parkins v Sodexho Ltd [2002] IRLR 109 EAT, in which it was held that a breach of legal obligation owed by an employer to an employee under their own contract could constitute a protect......
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Queensgate Investments LLP and Others v (1) Jonathan Millet (2) The Media Lawyers Association (Intervenor)
...129(1). What is clear is that the Tribunal must not attempt to decide the issue as if it were a final issue: Parkins v Sodexho Ltd [2002] IRLR 109 in the words of HHJ Altman at paragraph 29: D “Accordingly, it seems to us, that we must find that the Employment Tribunal erred in the question......
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Mr Edwin Jesudason v Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
...into force with effect from 25 June 2013. The purpose of this was to reverse the effect of the EAT decision in Parkins v Sodexo Ltd. [2002] IRLR 109, and to prevent complaints which relate purely to the claimant's own treatment, such as a breach of a claimant's contract with no wider public......
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5 firm's commentaries
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Whistleblowing Private Dispute Or Public Interest?
...in the public interest. This "public interest" test was introduced to reverse the effect of previous case law (Parkins v Sodexho Limited [2002] IRLR 109) so that a worker cannot rely on a breach of his own employment contract where there are no wider public interest An Employment Appeal Tri......
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Government announces radical reform to UK employment laws
...for any whistleblower making a disclosure about the worker’s own contract (to counter the EAT’s decision in Parkins v Sodexho Ltd [2002] IRLR 109 Create a universally portable CRB check that can be viewed by employers instantly online from early 2013 Consult on the introduction of fees for ......
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Employment highlights - An update on protection for whistleblowing
...there is no specific requirement that a qualifying disclosure must be made in the public interest (as held in Parkins v Sodexho [2002] IRLR 109), meaning that workers who blow the whistle about breaches of their own employment contract can claim breach of a legal obligation and are protecte......
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Whistleblowing in the UK – the latest developments and a review of the law
...to be in the public interest for it to be protected. The high water mark of this position was illustrated in Parkins v. Sodexho [2002] IRLR 109, where the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that disclosing a breach of any legal obligation (including a mere breach of a contract of employment), ......
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2 books & journal articles
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Outside the Equality Act
...Public Concern at Work (2013).32. Ibid., para. 7.Hand 217 33. Ibid., p. 26.34. Lewis (2013).35. Following Parkins v. Sodesho Limited [2002] IRLR 109, EAT; see also, for example, MillbankFinacial Services Ltd v Crawford [2014] IRLR 18, [31].36. Following the CA in Fecitt v. NHS Manchester [2......
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Whistle-blowing and the equality dimension of victimisation in the workplace
...the Public Interest, and the Public Inter-est Disclosure Act 1998”, Modern Law Review 63, no. 1 (2000): 25–54.31. Parkins v. Sodexho [2002] IRLR 109.32. P. Halliday. Whistleblowing: the new ‘public interest’ test and other developments para. 26,http://www.11kbw.com/uploads/files/PHPaper.pdf......