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	20 Apr 2012	Disclosure of employment information to unsuccessful job applicant not required by EU law	News from the IDS Employment Law Team
	20 Nov 2006	Discretionary bonuses and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977		In the case of Commerzbank AG v Keen, the Court of Appeal has handed down a judgment dealing with the high-profile issue of discretionary bonus payments.
	26 Apr 2013	Discrimination could be inferred from shareholder’s discriminatory comments	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In Asociatia ACCEPT v Consiliul National pentru Combaterea Discriminarii the ECJ has held that homophobic comments made in public by a person strongly associated with an employer, suggesting the exist...
	21 Jun 2012	Discussions relating to offers to terminate employment to be inadmissible in unfair dismissal claims	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	The Government has published an amendment to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill which would prevent employment tribunals hearing claims of unfair dismissal from taking into account any offer ma...
	11 Feb 2009	Dismissal for promoting religious beliefs not religious discrimination	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	The EAT, in Chondol v Liverpool City Council, has upheld a tribunal's decision that a social worker dismissed for promoting his religious beliefs to service users was not the victim of religious discr...
	27 May 2011	Dismissal in ‘Baby P’ case void and unlawful	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In R (on the application of Shoesmith) v Ofsted and ors the Court of Appeal has allowed a judicial review challenge made by the former Director of Children’s Services for the London Borough of Haringe...
	3 Nov 2011	Dismissal not unfair for inconsistent treatment when inconsistency had been explained	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In General Mills (Berwick) Ltd v Glowacki the EAT has overturned a tribunal's decision that dismissal for breach of health and safety procedures was unfair because the employer had treated an earli...
	8 Nov 2007	Dismissal Over Mistake as to Immigration Status was Potentially Fair	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	The Court of Appeal, in Klusova v Hounslow London Borough Council, has confirmed that a genuine but mistaken belief in the unlawfulness of an employee’s employment under immigration rules is a potenti...
	26 Nov 2010	Dismissal partly based on manifestation of spiritualist beliefs not discriminatory	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	An employee who was dismissed partly because of the way he promoted his spiritual beliefs at work has failed in his appeal against a tribunal’s decision that he was not subjected to discrimination on ...
	19 Mar 2010	Dismissal unfair when informal procedure abandoned in favour of formal action	News from the IDS Employment Law Team	In Sakar v West London Mental Health Trust the Court of Appeal has held that a tribunal was entitled to find that applying an informal misconduct procedure for minor offences, then subsequently dismis...