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By Angela Strzyzewska, Solicitor.   There have been recent developments in case law concerning workers’ holiday pay. In light of these developments,...

The government has today announced proposed changes to workers’ rights, claiming that ‘the UK will become one of the first countries to address the challenges...

Should voluntary overtime be taken into account when calculating holiday pay?

A gap of more than three months breaks the series of alleged unlawful deductions.

In October 2016, we reported that, subsequent to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) having dismissed the appeal of British Gas in the well-publicised ‘Lock’...

In our update 204 we explained that the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) dismissed the appeal of British Gas in the well-publicised Lock case.  

In the case of Sobczyszyn v Szkoła Podstawowa w Rzeplinie, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) considered whether a Polish teacher who was unable to take...

Many of our readers will already have read in the press that the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) dismissed the appeal of British Gas in the well-publicised Lock case.

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland has expressed the view that overtime which is entirely voluntary should be included in the calculation of statutory...

The Deduction from Wages (Limitation) Regulations 2014 came into force on 1 July 2015. The primary aim of the Regulations is to limit the impact on businesses...

As regular readers of our updates will be aware, there has recently been a tide of court judgments upholding the rights of long-term absentees to receive...

Dismissed Worker entitled to previous year's holiday pay - EAT judgment has determined that a worker who had been on sick leave for an entire leave year was...