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Business Development: Playing The Right Card
Leor Franks
9 June 2016
No Imputed Intention for Direct Disability Discrimination
Gallop v Newport City Council UKEAT/0118/15
In this case, the EAT dealt with the issue of the decision maker’s knowledge in a direct disability discrimination claim.
The brief facts of the case were that Mr Gallop was employed by Newport City Council. He was referred to the council’s Occupational Health department due to stress. He was signed off on a few occasions with stress related illness, however occupational health did not consider that he had a depressive illness, or that he was covered by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. After a return to work Mr Gallop was suspended following an allegation of misconduct and later dismissed.
27 May 2016
Efficiency in the public sector: a philosophical belief?
Mr Harron worked for Dorset Police and made a series of complaints to his employer about what he saw to be poor use of public money. He claimed a detriment arising from his profound ‘belief in the proper and efficient use of public money in the public sector’ as discrimination on the basis of ‘philosophical belief’.
23 May 2016
Money can’t buy you restraint: A “how not to” guide to restrictive covenants
Bartholomews Agri Food Limited v Michael Andrew Thornton
Remember the parable of The House on the Rock? In the words of Matthew 7:24-27: “everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
23 May 2016
Case update - Sticking it to the (Chair)man
Does an employee who initiates consensual termination discussions waive his right to resign and claim constructive dismissal? No said the High Court in Gibbs v Leeds United Football Club Ltd.
29 April 2016
Proposals for a single employment court
Employment analysis: Richard M Fox, vice president of the Employment Lawyers Association and chair of its Single Employment Court Working Party, explains the reasons behind the proposal for a single employment court and its potential implications.
This article was first published on Lexis®PSL Employment on 27 April 2016.