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.
UK benefits from executives failure to take full holiday entitlement.
Business gets opportunity to air views on timing of introduction of compulsory bank holidays.
Banking up holidays
A recent decision about paid Bank Holidays for part-timers only serves to muddy the waters.
ECJ rules on payment for untaken holidayFederatie Nederlandse Vakbeweging v The Netherlands, European Court of Justice, 6 April 2006BackgroundUnder The...
One of the contributors to your discussions online advised that the fairest way to allocate leave was on a 'first-come, first-served' basis.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled in Caulfield v Hanson Clay Products Ltd (formerly Marshalls Clay Products Ltd)...
The TUC has welcomed a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling that effectively puts an end to the practice of paying rolled-up holiday pay, where an employer agrees with workers that their pay for annual leave be included in their hourly remuneration.
More than half of employers offer sabbaticals or extended leave, according to research by IRS Employment Review.
A third of UK workers will not take their full holiday entitlement in 2005, despite complaints of being overworked, according to research from Croner
Rolled-up holiday pay
All full-time workers will be able to take nearly a month's paid holiday a year, under legislation to be announced this week.
About 11,000 BBC employees received seven years of back pay, after the corporation discovered it may have been breaching employment laws on holiday pay.
Adding to the points made in your news story ‘No happy holidays as work piles up while Brits take a...
Two recent cases highlight the need for employers to exercise caution when dealing with the annual holiday entitlement of employees on long-term sick leave. By Guy Guinan
