Under the Working Time Regulations 1998, full-time workers are entitled to a minimum of 5.6 weeks’ annual leave in each leave year.
The calculation of holiday pay has been a major issue for employers in recent years. The trend has been for courts and tribunals to find that more than just base pay has to be included in holiday pay. This includes regular overtime and commission payments.
Anyone deemed to have “worker” status must be able to carry over paid annual leave, even if they have not...
A Japanese-based firm recently granted its non-smoking employees additional holiday. Should UK employers follow suit by considering introducing such a...
The requirement for large employers to publish a slavery and human trafficking statement came into force in October 2015 and...
The key issue behind the recent troubles at Ryanair was a failure to plan for pilots’ leave. Why do so...
The cancellation of thousands of scheduled Ryanair flights and the collapse of airline Monarch will have an impact in the...
An employment tribunal has ruled that a group of Addison Lee drivers were workers and therefore entitled to rights such...
Mismanagement of annual leave can have a dramatic impact on a company’s business, as demonstrated by Ryanair’s cancellation of hundreds...
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will require employers to provide employees with a privacy notice, detailing how their personal...
Following last month’s decision of the Supreme Court declaring that employment tribunal fees were unlawful, the number of tribunal claims...
Flexible benefits schemes can help to boost employee recruitment and retention by increasing the range of benefits available to employees....
Payments for purely voluntary overtime should be included in holiday pay if they are regular enough to constitute “normal pay”,...
The decision by the Supreme Court that the employment tribunal fees system is unlawful may be one of the most...
Any much-anticipated report is likely to divide opinion, and the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices is no different. Rob...
The long-awaited Taylor Review of modern employment practices emerged today, introduced at a press conference hosted by Prime Minister Theresa...
An alternative worker status – dependent contractor – will be proposed by the Taylor review tomorrow alongside calls for new...
