Employment Notes
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UK: Statutory holiday - recalculation of entitlement to reflect change to hours need not be retrospective
The ECJ has confirmed that, when a worker increases their hours during the leave year, the statutory leave entitlement going forward must be recalculated …
Australia: ‘Repair, not replacement’ - Productivity Commission releases draft report on workplace relations framework
The Productivity Commission has released its draft report on the workplace relations framework, as part of its inquiry into the current performance of …
UK: Employers must permit carry-over of statutory holiday for 18 months where unused due to sickness
Employees unable or unwilling to take their 4 weeks' EU-derived statutory holiday because of sickness absence continuing to the end of the leave year can …
UK: Holiday pay - Northern Irish ruling that employers may need to include voluntary overtime pay in calculation
In Patterson v Castlereagh BC the Northern Irish Court of Appeal has given its view that, in principle, voluntary overtime pay may need to be included in …
UK: New resources for employers on facial disfigurement, epilepsy, dementia, holiday pay, right to work checks
Charity Changing Faces has published guidance to assist employers with handling the issue of facial disfigurement. It advises that employers should …
UK: Employer appeals tribunal ruling that commission must be reflected in statutory holiday pay
As expected, the employment tribunal in Lock v British Gas Trading has confirmed that words can be written into the Working Time Regulations to …
UK: Tribunal confirms that UK regulations can be read as requiring commission to be reflected in statutory holiday pay
Readers will be familiar with recent EU and UK caselaw ruling that the UK Working Time Regulations fail to properly implement EU law, which …
Europe: EU employers face significant financial risk due to holiday pay ruling
In May 2014 the European Court of Justice ruled that pay for statutory holiday entitlement under the EU Working Time Directive must reflect 'normal …
UK: Statutory holiday - workers have right to carry over where prevented from taking holiday for reasons not limited to sickness
Workers who have been unable or unwilling to take their statutory holiday entitlement for reasons beyond their control, including but not limited to …
UK: Government acts to limit backdated holiday pay claims with effect from 1 July 2015
The government has laid regulations before Parliament to impose a two-year limitation on unlawful deductions from wages claims. The regulations come into …
UK: Statutory holiday pay - no appeal over ruling on retrospective claims
In last month's e-bulletin we reported the landmark EAT judgment in Bear Scotland v Fulton that pay for the 4 weeks' EU statutory holiday …
Asia Pacific: Paying out of accrued annual leave
Where there has been a transfer of employment, we compare the rules in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia in relation to what …
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