Staff told to vary their terms and conditions were dismissed, says EAT

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• Steptoe & Johnson LLP

In Darby & Another v. Law Society of England and Wales (2008), Mr Darby and his colleague were senior employees at the Law Society. Each had a contractual entitlement to the provision of a leased car as part of their remuneration package.

In October 2005, each were told separately following an equal pay audit that the Society had decided that the provision to them of leased cars was anomalous and that these would be withdrawn. Over the course of the following months correspondence ensue... (189 more words)

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