Time off work

New and updated

• Date:

  1 October 1995

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Time off: Employer must be aware of request for time off

  An employee cannot complain that he or she has been refused time off for trade union duties unless it is established that a request for time off was made which came to the notice of the employer's appropriate representative, and that they either refused it, ignored it or failed to respond to it, holds the EAT in Ryford Ltd v Drinkwater.

• Date:

  1 April 1992

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Time off: Right to paid time off only during working hours

  In Hairsine v Kingston-upon-Hull City Council, the EAT holds that a trade union official's right to paid time off work for training is limited to those hours when the employee would normally be at work. If the training course falls outside those hours, the employee is not entitled to paid time off "in lieu" during his or her contractual working hours.

• Date:

  5 September 1990

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Time off: Parliamentary lobby not a trade union activity

  An industrial tribunal was entitled to find that, in the circumstances of this case, lobbying of Parliament was not a trade union activity entitling union members to time off.

• Date:

  24 January 1984

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Time off: Relevance of agreed time off scheme

  In assessing the reasonableness of the amount of paid time off for trade union duties under s.27(2) of the EP(C)A, the terms of a collectively agreed time off scheme ought to be taken into account, suggests the EAT in Ashley v Ministry of Defence.

• Date:

  9 August 1978

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Redundancy: Employee does not need to have job interview to have right to time off to look for work

  S.61 of the Employment Protection Act provides a right for employees who have been given notice of dismissal by reason of redundancy to be allowed reasonable time off during working hours to look for new employment or make training arrangements. In Dutton v Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal has its first opportunity to consider this section. Several principles emerge from the EAT's decision.

• Date:

  12 July 1978

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Time off for public duties: Tribunals have no power to impose conditions on the parties

  In Corner v Buckinghamshire County Council, a time off for public duties case, the EAT holds the Industrial Tribunal can do no more than declare that the employer had failed to allow the employee to take reasonable time off and, if appropriate, make an award of compensation.