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.
Technology is making it harder for employees to switch off on their summer break with one-third admitting they work while...
One of my employees recently went on her two-week summer holiday, but rang up halfway through to tell me she...
A survey conducted by the UK’s biggest IT specialist recruitment website, The IT Job Board, http://www.theitjobboard.co.uk, has highlighted that World...
The Christian registrar who was found to have been lawfully dismissed after refusing to conduct civil ceremonies has now won...
HR news and analysis, including:
The general election result and the potential impact on employers and the workforce
British Airways...
The blanket ban on flights in and out of the UK could cost businesses more than £3m a day as...
Businesses that dock the pay of workers who fail to turn up to work because they are stranded abroad by...
Employers must pay staff their full holiday entitlements if they are off sick for more than a year and are...
The relationship between sickness and holiday is a tricky one, following two recent European Court of Justice (ECJ) decisions (Stringer...
HR news and analysis including: the latest advice on whether holiday leave can be carried over to the following year...
The first employment tribunal to test paid holiday and sick leave following two major court rulings last year has held...
Lyons v Mitie SecurityFactsLyons was employed as a security officer for Mitie Security. He was supplied to Mitie’s clients at...
Workers will be given an extra, one-off bank holiday in 2012 to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, it has emerged....
What difference will one more bank holiday make, asks Tara Craig
Employers should be aware that shutting the office over Christmas could be seen as discriminatory by followers of some religions,...
