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.
Employees win the right to accrue holiday while on sick leaveThe long-running case of Stringer v HMRC has finally reached...
Tesco employees are to share in more than £25m of vouchers and savings – as well as an extra day’s...
Cable & Wireless has just given its employees around the world an extra day off after reporting an increase in...
Industrial & Commercial Maintenance Ltd v Mr A M Briffa FACTS The claimant, Briffa, was employed by Industrial & Commercial...
More than half of UK workers want their employer to take more responsibility for their health and wellbeing needs, with...
Gagandeep Prasad and Caroline Buckley spell out the vital contract and policy documentation for holiday entitlement.The summer holidays are fast...
How long does someone have to work for you before they qualify for statutory maternity pay? What is the national...
The TUC has renewed calls for an extra bank holiday in late October.The union umbrella body this morning published a...
Line managers spend almost an entire working day of their holiday checking e-mails, according to a poll.The survey of 1,415...
The majority of UK workers are suffering from the summer blues, according to a survey.A poll by the Training and...
The summer holiday period is almost upon us, which means employers will need to be mindful of a number of...
EXCLUSIVEThree big local authorities have joined forces to become the first councils to introduce total reward statements for their staff.Buckinghamshire,...
UK employees have no idea how much employers spend on benefits each year, research has found.A survey of 1,300 people,...
Q My company has, as part of its overall employee benefit scheme, a so-called duvet day allowance. All permanent staff...
The UK needs another public holiday to honour its Armed Forces, a government-backed inquiry has found, despite the fact that...
