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.
Two recent stellar rulings on sickness and holiday accrual and entitlement have managed to clear some waters and muddy others. Joanne Owers explains.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has decided that workers who are sick during a period of pre-arranged annual leave...
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Elizabeth Lang, a partner in the London employment team at Bird & Bird, looks at how UK holiday entitlement compares...
When asked which staff benefit they would like to remove if they could, almost a quarter of company directors opted...
In January this year, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided that a worker on sick leave is also entitled...
Pinsent Masons partner Philip Titchmarsh discusses various aspects of the House of Lords ruling on Stringer v HMRC.
Employers will...
Workers can accrue holiday pay while on sick leave, the House of Lords has ruled.In the final judgment in Stringer...
A long-running case concerning whether staff can accrue holiday pay while on sick leave will be heard in the House...
British Airways could face industrial action over plans to slash employee remuneration and holidays, to reduce in-flight budgets by £82m....
British Airways pilots’ representatives will consider whether to appeal against today’s ruling by the Court of Appeal that they were...
Job losses continue to dominate the headlines as businesses scrabble to save money. But there are plenty of alternatives to...
In one of the most anticipated cases of this year, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that holiday...
P&MM, the UK’s leading employee benefits provider, has launched a new salary sacrifice solution enabling organisations to offer staff the...
