Casual workers employed under ‘nil hours’ relationship still had a contract of employment and the appropriate and associated rights. A court was fully able to determine the terms of the contract.
Citations:
Times 02-Apr-1998, Gazette 13-May-1998, [1997] EWCA Civ 871, [1999] ICR 1226, [1998] EWCA Civ 558, [2000] IRLR 43
Statutes:
Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 11
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Citing:
Appeal from – Carmichael and Another v National Power Plc EAT 25-Apr-1996
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Cited by:
Appeal from – Carmichael and Another v National Power Plc HL 24-Jun-1999
Tour guides were engaged to act ‘on a casual as required basis’. The guides later claimed to be employees and therefore entitled by statute to a written statement of their terms of employment. Their case was that an exchange of correspondence . .
Cited – Liffe Administration and Management v Pinkava and Another CA 15-Mar-2007
The employee had patented in the US a trading system he invented whilst employed by the defendant, who now sought ownership. He appealed a finding that the inventions had been made during the normal course of his employment. The employment contract . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Employment
Updated: 05 November 2022; Ref: scu.141267
