By Suff, Alison Bone, Nicholas Bourne

The "Essentials" sequence goals to assist scholars get via checks. It appears to be like at significant matters and the most themes inside of these matters, thereby supplying an figuring out of the $64000 ideas, whatever the constitution of the path or fundamental textbook. This paintings covers employment legislation.

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This was held to be valid. In Cantor Fitzgerald International v Callaghan (1999), the issue was whether failure to pay an employee’s full salary amounted to a repudiatory breach. The Court of Appeal distinguished between administrative errors and other slips which resulted in failure to 30 THE CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT pay and a deliberate refusal. The former would not amount to breach, the latter would, even if the amount was very small. In this case, the employees were told that a loan would not incur a tax liability, but, due to a mistake, the Revenue were misinformed and a tax demand was made.

Suspension without pay on any ground would therefore constitute a breach of contract on the part of the employer, unless such procedure was allowed by an express term of the contract, or was implied by custom or practice. In Bird v British Celanese (1945), an employee was suspended for two days in accordance with the firm’s practice. This was held to be valid. In Cantor Fitzgerald International v Callaghan (1999), the issue was whether failure to pay an employee’s full salary amounted to a repudiatory breach.

However, the Employers Liability (Defective Equipment) Act 1969 provides that the employer shall be liable in those circumstances to the employee and he may then seek reimbursement from the supplier; 32 THE CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT – safe system and method of work This is the widest duty and covers such matters as the general conditions of work, coordination of work departments, training and supervision. In Bux v Slough Metals (1973), Bux was provided with safety goggles but declined to use them.

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