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.
The comments from Geraldine Hetherington, chief operating officer of Hudson UK – regarding 16% of UK workers making contact with...
Brits on breaks kept informed of big work pile up awaiting their return.
Not telling your bosses you are going away – whether that be on an all inclusive to Benidorm or indeed...
Cliff Richard once sang: “We’re all going on a summer holiday, no more worries for a week or two” –...
Sixteen per cent of workers will contact their place of work at least once during their summer holiday
Almost half of all holidaymakers have their break interrupted by calls from work, research has shown.
UK employers are risking discrimination claims this summer because they are too family-friendly with holiday entitlement, experts have warned
Unfortunately for employers, holidays are solely there to remind us all that there is much more to life than work
What are bank holidays?Bank holidays are days when banks in the UK may close for business. Although they are widely...
Staff will give up more than14 million days of paid holiday entitlement this year
Having worked their socks off during the election campaign, MPs are off for a well-earned 80-day rest.
Sainsbury’s has launched an extensive recruitment drive that will see it create 10,000 full-time jobs by the end of the year – exclusively for the over-50s.
The sheer scale of the response to the Pope's death last month acted as a forceful reminder of the importance of faith to many people. Employment law expert Marian Bloodworth explains how employers should treat staff who request leave on religious grounds
Ainsworth v Inland Revenue, Court of Appeal, 22 April 2005
Employees on long-term sick leave will not be allowed to accrue holiday pay while they are absent, following a landmark...
