Sentences with phrase «code adjudicator»

During the question session in the House of Commons chamber, Mark Williams called on the Secretary of State to back the Lib Dem call for the role of the Grocery Code Adjudicator to be extended to try and tackle this issue.

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Over the years, retailers have cheerfully trousered millions of pounds in what has been variously called «shelf money», «hello money», marketing support or what the UK Groceries Code Adjudicator coyly describes as «unfair practices».

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British Prime Minister David Cameron has backed calls to grant the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) more power to protect dairy farmers from retailers.

He said he was «very pleased when David Cameron committed to Government consideration of how the Groceries Code Adjudicator can be given a wider remit and greater remit and greater powers to protect our dairy farmers.»

Earlier this week, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee called for protection provided against major retailers by the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) yo be extended to all dairy farmers and small - scale producers.

«Specifically on the Groceries Code Adjudicator, I think it is time to make sure that organisation has the power if necessary to levy fines so that it can get its will obeyed.

The parliamentary Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee have published letters written to Michael Gove MP, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary of State (DEFRA) and Greg Clark MP, Secretary for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), strongly endorsing our position and demanding progress on the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA).

Tesco was also investigated by the Grocery Code Adjudicator, who found it had deliberately delayed payments to suppliers in order to meet its own financial targets, among other abuses.

The performance of the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) in the UK will be examined in a statutory review launched by Business Minister Margot James.

Christine Tacon, the groceries code adjudicator, said she had «no concerns at all» about the size of the supermarkets as scale does not affect...

In enacting Division XIV of Part III of the Code, Parliament created another forum besides the courts to hear complaints of unjust dismissal and granted Code adjudicators remedial powers common law judges are without.»

Not exact matches

We heard about the new supermarket adjudicator appointed under the UK's mandatory supermarket code of conduct, and how she intended to exercise her powers, including by the imposition of «punitive fines» based on a percentage of turnover in the event of repeated abuses of market power down the supply chain by the supermarket majors.

An inconsequential error was made by the adjudicator in relation to one of three areas he found this criterion to be in breach of the Admissions Code and as a result the decision in its entirety is being quashed and the determination process re-done.

The annual report of the schools adjudicator, published on Monday, said that 18 of the 152 local authorities in England said some of their schools were not complying with the code.

The adjudicator appointed under the Canada Code agreed with him but reserved judgment regarding remedy when AECL sought judicial review of the decision before the Federal Court.

In previous articles, we have written about how Canadian Human Rights legislation confers broad powers on adjudicators to make damage awards for wage and other financial loss, for damage to dignity, feelings or self - respect, and for exemplary damages to drive home the heinous nature of impugned conduct; to order employers to institute educational programs; or to do other pro-active things to secure compliance with the Code.

A labour adjudicator appointed under the Canada Labour Code concluded that the Code only permits dismissal for cause, ruling in favour of the employee.

The individual respondent and the organization respondent were held to be «jointly and severally liable for all of the... violations of the Code,» the adjudicator wrote, since the individual respondent was the president, secretary, treasurer and manager of the organization respondent, Law Help Ltd..

Since then, the Dept for Business Innovation and Skills has launched a two - part consultation on the Pubs Code and the Pubs Adjudicator which closes on 18 January.

Although the usual standard for reviewing decisions of adjudicators who interpret provisions of the Code is reasonableness, the FCA decided that the case required a deviation from the normal course.

The FCA concluded that the adjudicator was incorrect to say that the Code prohibited employers from dismissing employees without cause.

This was because there had been «persistent discord» between adjudicators about whether or not the Code allowed dismissal without cause, which had existed for many years and required the FCA to act as a tie - breaker.

In the end, this means that the adjudicator's role under Part III of the Code is to evaluate the circumstances and determine whether the dismissal, whether or not for cause, was unjust.

The adjudicator's decision was overturned on appeal by the Federal Court, which held that an employer can dismiss an employee without cause so long as it gives notice or pay in lieu of notice in accordance with the Code.

The adjudicator also ordered the business owner to pay his former employee damages for injury to dignity, feelings and self - respect; as well as exemplary damages (available under The Human Rights Code) as punishment for malice / recklessness involved in the human rights violation.

Referring to his powers under The Human Rights Code, the adjudicator made it clear that there could be significant financial exposure to a business owner when the effects of sexual harassment on an employee trigger a lengthy period of unemployment.

Ms. Lockert's complaint will likely be successful, as adjudicators have increasingly found company dress code policies to be discriminatory.

The adjudicator also decided the employer fired the unscheduled sibling because of his association with his sister on the basis of creed contrary to the Human Rights Code (and likely also a wrongful dismissal regardless).

The adjudicator awarded the siblings a total of $ 17,500 compensation for injury to their dignity and feelings, $ 8,617 for lost wages (plus interest), and ordered the employer to create an internal human rights policy, take human rights training and place Human Rights Code cards throughout the workplace.

A recent Federal Court decision that addressed allegations of bias by an adjudicator hearing a case under the unjust dismissal provisions of the Canada Labour Code provides more comfort to adjudicators who engage in med - arb.

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Result: Mr. Mines was able to persuade the adjudicator that our client had no obligation to comply with a breath demand that was not authorized by the Criminal Code.

The Court stated: «even given the degree of deference due to an adjudicator's exercise of the broad remedial discretion conferred by the Code, the reasons given in this case do not..., provide a cogent justification for the decision to order reinstatement» (para. 87).

R (Hockerill Anglo - European College Academy Trust) v Schools Adjudicator [2016] EWHC 1642 (Admin)(High Court) A challenge raising the question of the compatibility with the School Admissions Code of a boarding academy's admission policy which provided for «day boarders».

The labour adjudicator accepted Mr. Wilson's submission and concluded the Applicant, dismissed without cause, had made out his complaint of unjust dismissal under the Code.

A recent decision of the Federal Court has confirmed that adjudicators acting under the wrongful dismissal provisions of the Canada Labour Code can apply equitable principles in determining jurisdiction.

In applying the Canada Labour Code, adjudicators have adopted the so - called «modern approach» to damages in lieu of reinstatement.

In Taylor v. Exalta Transport Services Ltd. [xii], Adjudicator Williams - Whitt adopted the modern approach from a previous arbitral decision under the Canada Labour Code.

While not binding on human rights adjudicators, arbitral jurisprudence can raise interesting employment issues and has been used by the OHRC to inform a broad and purposive interpretation of the Code.

The Law Rule 68 of the Code provides grounds on which the Adjudicator acted correctly in dismissing the Applicant's case.

She sits as a grievance arbitrator and unjust dismissal adjudicator under the Canada Labour Code and for a number of years she was a Panel Chair on the Insurance Councils Appeal Board.

Ethical codes for adjudicators and mediators do not specifically address the informal mentoring relationship.

Wilson v. Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. was thought to put to rest the long - standing debate among adjudicators of whether federally regulated employers can dismiss an employee without just cause if they meet certain criteria (Part III of the the Canada Labour Code («the Code») provides protection in the form of reinstatement for employees dismissed «without just cause»).

Federally, since the introduction of the unjust dismissal legislation under the code in 1978, the vast majority of federal adjudicators held that dismissals could only be affected on a just - cause basis.

In late May, the court heard an application for judicial review in BMO v. Sasso seeking to set aside the order of an adjudicator made during a hearing under the provisions of the Canada Labour Code that dealt with documents the Bank of Montreal claimed were privileged.