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.
An employment tribunal has found a recruitment agency withheld holiday pay from a temporary worker while she was on furlough.
Questions on Covid-19 vaccination dominate this month's list, alongside IR35, right-to-work checks and the relationship between holiday pay and overtime.
A new league table that re-ranks the FTSE 100 in terms of the employee benefits they offer, as rated by...
Jo Moseley answers 15 questions that employers are asking in relation to their staff jetting off in 2021.
Just Eat is pressing ahead with plans to end the company’s reliance on gig workers by offering couriers the opportunity to join its ‘agency worker’ model.
With millions rolling over annual leave in the hope of holiday later in the year are firms storing up problems for themselves, particularly as burnout takes its toll?
An engineer who claimed he was owed holiday pay by Pimlico Plumbers has lost his latest Employment Appeal Tribunal case.
Following the Supreme Court ruling that its drivers are workers, Uber is giving its UK drivers a guaranteed minimum wage, holiday pay and pensions.
The announcement about lockdown easing plans prompted a boom in annual leave requests.
Although the government's review of employment rights has been shelved, which laws could it seek to amend in theory?
Business secretary says review of workers' rights has been scrapped; Matthew Taylor sounds alarm about future of labour market enforcement role.
Now that the UK and the EU have agreed on the position of the UK post-Brexit, HR is left wondering...
Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed that the government is looking at workers’ rights now that the UK does not...
Kwasi Kwarteng has denied reports that government wants to scrap the 48-hour limit, regulations on rest periods and other elements of the EU Working Time Directive
Stephen Simpson looks at five important employment law cases that will grab the headlines in 2021, covering significant issues such...
