Employment law cases

Ali and others v Christian Salvesen Food Services Ltd [1995] IRLR 624 EAT

Reports relating to this case:

  • Contracts of employment: "Annualised hours" contract contained implied term on overtime pay

    Date:
    1 September 1995

    In Ali and others v Christian Salvesen Food Services plc the EAT holds that a contract of employment, which provided that overtime payments would be made only when the employee had worked more than the annualised hours total of 1,824 hours in the working year, contained an implied term entitling the employee, whose employment terminated several months before the end of the working year, to overtime payments in certain circumstances.