The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has dismissed the appeal of a Christian care
worker against the decision of an Employment Tribunal that she was not constructively dismissed as a result of her refusal to work on Sundays.
The Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal of a Christian care
worker against the decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) that a requirement that she work on Sundays indirectly discriminated against her on the grounds of religion or belief.
Not exact matches
We can take some comfort at the fact that finally, toward the end of the twentieth century, prosecutors have begun applying criminal statutes to corporate officers who make
decisions that (for instance) cause death or injury to a
worker or to the public, and charges brought
against these individuals include manslaughter and homicide charges.
Pretty much all the left press other than Solidarity [
Workers Liberty's paper] has denounced the election court
decision against Lutfur Rahman, mayor of Tower Hamlets in East London, and most of the left has backed Rabina Khan, Rahman's ally, for the new mayoral election on 11 June.
Perez Williams said after her initial
decision against running for Congress, she started a new job in February as an advocate for injured
workers with the New York State Workers» Compensation
workers with the New York State
Workers» Compensation
Workers» Compensation Board.
«We, the entire
workers of the Cocoa research institute of Nigeria (CRIN), Ibadan and members of the host communities decry and condemn in entirety the
decision of the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Leye Oyebade, to use brutal a force to suppress and repress the ongoing legitimate agitation of CRIN
workers against the years of despotic and draconian rule of Prof Malachy O. Akoroda, the executive director of the institute.
As he learns more about Uber's
decision to undermine a taxi
worker protest
against the Muslim ban, we hope Gov. Cuomo will join New Yorkers in condemning Uber's behavior as well,» said Dustin Jones of United for Equal Access New York in a statement released by a consortium of taxi companies opposed to the ride hailing expansion.
A representative group of
workers from Unite, Britain's largest union, whose companies have been sold off by the John Lewis Partnership, will protest
against the
decision at the partners» meeting this Monday morning.
A
decision by the coalition government to legislate
against the unions would win support from Conservative backbenchers keen to suppress unrest among public sector
workers about their employment conditions.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has vowed to vote
against Gorsuch, citing his
decision in favor of the Christian - owned store Hobby Lobby in its suit
against the Affordable Care Act's requirement employers finance
workers» contraceptives.
Her advice and the tragic passing of the young social
worker I never got to meet solidified my
decision against getting a tonsillectomy.
The food delivery app Deliveroo has successfully bucked the recent trend in the gig economy establishing
workers» employment status, after winning a landmark
decision against its own riders.
While she was in law school, Sacha was selected for a prestigious nation - wide award by the B.C. Civil Liberties Association for her paper in critique of the B.C. Supreme Court's
decision to refuse to hear the Sex
Workers United
Against Violence's challenge to the constitutionality of Canada's prostitution laws.
The case follows another BCCA
decision handed down in 2017
against lawyer Stanley Chang Woon Foo who, upon meeting a social
worker in the hallway of a Quesnel courthouse in 2013, claimed he was only joking when he said he should shoot her as she took away too many kids.
Sian Reeves, pupil barrister, at 1 Temple Gardens, says that although it is inevitable that the
decision will encourage disgruntled female
workers to bring discrimination claims
against their union, it may not be the end of the story.
The Downtown Eastside Sex
Workers United
Against Violence
decision, released on September 20th 2012, was a victory for CARL and public interest groups as a whole.
In a much - awaited
decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has thrown out a huge discrimination lawsuit
against Wal - Mart that had been filed as a class action by female
workers.
«In a
decision that sharply pits the court's view of a coherent drug strategy
against the Conservative government's, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled 9 - 0 the health minister can not deny a legal protection to addicts and clinical health
workers who would otherwise be penalized by federal drug laws.»
The Deliveroo
decision comes hard on the heels of the latest
decision against Uber which lost its appeal
against an Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruling: that its drivers should be classified as
workers with rights, such as holiday pay and a minimum wage, rather than being self - employed.
In Lawrence v International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers (IBEW) Local 773, in a split
decision, the Court of Appeal granted a representation order nunc pro tunc to commence a wrongful dismissal action
against a Union after the limitation period had expired because the Union and some of its representatives had defended the proceeding to the point that it was ready for trial.
The B.C. Court of Appeal reversed that
decision, granting them public interest standing, and this position was upheld this week at the Supreme Court of Canada in Canada (Attorney General) v. Downtown Eastside Sex
Workers United
Against Violence Society.
In its
decision, Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v. United Food and Commercial
Workers, Local 401, 2013 SCC 62, the Supreme Court weighed the collective rights of a union's freedom of expression under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
against the rights of individuals whose personal information was collected, used and disclosed without consent by the... [more]
I'll close with this quote from USSC Chief Justice Hughes in the 1937
decision in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, he states: «The exploitation of a class of
workers who are in an unequal position with respect to bargaining power and are thus relatively defenseless
against the denial of a living wage is not only detrimental to their health and well being, but casts a direct burden for their support upon the community.»
Now it seems the high court is more easily persuaded to expand liability, as it has done with
decisions affecting asbestos litigation, medical liability,
workers» compensation and «bad faith» claims
against insurers.
However James Farrar, co-claimant in the landmark employment tribunal
decision against Uber, and chair of the Independent
Workers» Union of Great Britain's United Private Hire Drivers (UPHD) branch was highly critical of the regulator, saying its
decision in 2012 to grant Uber a license and only now, more than five years» later, revoke it shows a «systematic failure».