Ian Smith chews over a bad apple, part-time status, missing appeal documents & whistleblowing detriments
- Part-time status: must it be the sole reason?
- A more liberal approach to missing appeal documents.
- Whistleblowing detriment: vicarious liability for agents.
- Equal value claims and job evaluation studies: is there a ‘bad apple’ principle?
Two Court of Appeal cases in the last month are of particular importance on very different problems in current employment law—namely the requirement of causation in part-time worker cases, and the right approach to be taken to incomplete documentation in an appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT), in the light of a legislative change in 2023. In the case of the latter, it should finally determine the point but, for reasons explained below, the former may not be the last word.
In addition, two EAT cases are considered here, relating to vicarious liability of agents in whistleblowing law and the position of job evaluation schemes in equal value cases.
Part-time status
Augustine v Data Cars Ltd [2025] EWCA Civ 658 is an
