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O’Brien v Bolton St Catherine’s Academy
Ms O’Brien was a teacher at the Academy. She took a short period of time off work after having been assaulted by a pupil. That incident and some other factors continued to affect her, culminating in absence for stress and diagnoses of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Lock v British Gas
It’s been a long time coming. But we have the final word on one particular aspect of holiday pay calculations: holiday pay should include the results-based commission that a worker would ordinarily earn.
Bougnaoui and another v Micropole SA
On the same day as Achbita, the CJEU decided another case about headscarves.
Achbita v G4S Secure Solutions
Do you remember the case of Samira Achbita? She was the Muslim employee of G4S, dismissed after insisting on wearing a headscarf to work. Wearing the headscarf went against the company’s ‘neutrality’ policy – in effect, no one was allowed to wear any visible sign of political, religious or philosophical belief while at work.
Falling through the skies at approximately 120mph before taking in the scenery of the North West from 5,000ft may sound hellish to some, but that is exactly what our Trainee Solicitor Claire Gatley is preparing to do.