Weekly Issue 33 - April 1999

Hitting a rich seam on working time

Barber and others v RJB Mining (High Court, 3 March 1999) IDS Brief 634 April 1999

Assessing the risk

Day v Pickles Farms Ltd [1999] IRLR 217

Medical evidence a must in DDA claims

Buxton v Equinox Design Ltd [1999] IRLR 158

Who gets it and who doesn't

The National Minimum Wage (the "NMW") came into force on 1 April 1999. We reported in issue 28 on the public consultation exercise carried out by the DTI last September, and the draft regulations as they then stood. The National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 did not actually receive parliamentary approval until a matter of weeks before they came into force.

Net pay is crucially important

Cantor Fitzgerald International v Callaghan and Others; 21 January 1999, Court of Appeal (The Times 25/1/99)

Friend or foe?

Friend v Institution of Professional Managers and Specialists [1999] IRLR 173
Bank of Credit and Commerce International v Ali

When 'equal' equals unequal

Evesham v North Hertfordshire Health Authority Secretary of State for Health [1999] ILR 155