Working Time
Supreme Court gives NHS trust permission to appeal voluntary overtime and holiday pay ruling
The Supreme Court has granted the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust permission to appeal the Court of Appeal's ruling that regular voluntary overtime should be included in Working Time Directive holiday pay. The Supreme Court will also look at the second part of the Court of Appeal's ruling that the claimants had a contractual entitlement to have voluntary overtime taken into account for the purposes of calculating holiday pay in accordance with the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook.
May Bank Holiday 2020
In order to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day in 2020, the government has decided to move the early […]
High Court finds that directors can be liable for breach of employment contract
Most directors of companies don’t expect to be held personally liable for inducing the employer to breach an employee’s contract […]
Personal injury compensation awarded in the Employment Tribunal
In Grange v. Abellio London Ltd EAT/0304/17 the EAT has held that personal injury compensation is available for a failure […]
Labour of love: foster parents are not workers under the Working Time Directive
In a case referred by the Romanian courts, the ECJ has held that foster parents are not workers for the […]
Expansion of the meaning of working time
For many employers, the concept of “working time” can be difficult to pin down. In particular, the question as to […]
Supreme Court rules that embassy staff are not excluded by state immunity
In the recent case of Benkharbouche v. Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs & Anor the Supreme Court agreed with the EAT and the Court of Appeal and unanimously held that sections 4(2)(b) and 16(1)(a) of the State Immunity Act 1978 (SIA) cannot protect embassies from Employment Tribunal claims brought by domestic staff in the UK.
Check the holiday calendar!
Failure to correctly plan pilots' holidays will result in Ryanair cancelling hundreds of flights over the next six weeks.
We're all going on a summer holiday…if the boss allows it!
The holiday season is upon us and workers have dreams of lying on beaches and splashing in the sea. […]