Overview

Baker & McKenzie's monthly update on UK employment law provides news and comment on the following areas:

• The EAT has given guidance on the approach tribunals should take when awarding aggravated damages, emphasising that their purpose is to compensate the employee and not to punish the employer.


• The Court of Appeal has held that a claim that a woman was awarded fewer share options under a non contractual discretionary option scheme than her male comparator could not be brought as an equal pay claim and should have been brought as a claim for sex discrimination.


• The EAT has held that the assembly and supply of axles for vehicles under an agreement for "goods & services" fell within the supply of goods exclusion such that there was no service provision change and TUPE did not apply.

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