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Supreme Court – employers cannot prorate holiday entitlement for part-year workers

By Amy Gordon
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ECJ finds that time spent attending mandatory vocational training can be working time

By UK People Reward and Mobility Team
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Firefighters’ “standby time” is working time, says ECJ

By Imogen Dean
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What will long-term shifts toward flexible working mean for employers and employees?

By Elouisa Crichton
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All work and no play – new working time statistics

By Emma Carter
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Supreme Court gives NHS trust permission to appeal voluntary overtime and holiday pay ruling

By Kate Coppack
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May Bank Holiday 2020

In order to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day in 2020, the government has decided to move the early […]

By Claire McKee
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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 […]

By Aggie Salt
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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 […]

By UK People Reward and Mobility Team
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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 […]

By Laura Morrison
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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 […]

By Lauren Costello
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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.

By Helena Rozman

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