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The Pilots' Compensation Scheme: A Study in Arbitration, Interpretation and Causation
Author(s) -
Smith I. T.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
british journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.665
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-8543
pISSN - 0007-1080
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8543.1994.tb01010.x
Subject(s) - causation , arbitration , pilotage , compensation (psychology) , interpretation (philosophy) , statutory law , scheme (mathematics) , statutory interpretation , law , political science , psychology , computer science , social psychology , mathematics , philosophy , mathematical analysis , humanities , programming language
This article considers nine cases dealt with by ACAS arbitration in the period from September1991 to July 1993 under the statutory compensation scheme for marine pilots whose engagements were terminated in consequence of the major changes made to the provision of pilotage services by the Pilotage Act 1987. It explains the background to those changes and the problems that arose in the nine cases (problems of interpretation of the scheme, particularly in sickness cases, and then of proving causation in individual cases), and comments on the use of the arbitration procedures in circumstances such as these.