# Case (Employment status of associate hospital managers). Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust v Moon \[2024\] EAT 4

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— Summary from beginning of judgment: "The [Employment] Tribunal had made no error of law in concluding that the claimant, who had been appointed as an Associate Hospital Manager, namely a person authorised by the board of the respondent NHS trust under section 23(6) of the Mental Health Act 1983, had been a worker under section 230(3)(b) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 and employed under a contract personally to do work, as defined by section 83(2)(a) of the Equality Act 2010, such that it had jurisdiction to consider her substantive claims."

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Full details available at: [https://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/Lancashire\_and\_South\_Cumbria\_NHS\_Foundation\_Trust\_v\_Moon\_(2024)\_EAT\_4?id=060525-2022](https://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/Lancashire_and_South_Cumbria_NHS_Foundation_Trust_v_Moon_(2024)_EAT_4?id=060525-2022)