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- Type:
- Letters and forms
A model form to create a comprehensive record of the reasons for an individual's absences.
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- Date:
- 21 March 2018
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Santos Gomes v Higher Level Care Ltd, the Court of Appeal held that compensation for injury to feelings is not available in a claim under the Working Time Regulations 1998 (SI 1998/1833) for a failure to provide 20-minute rest breaks..
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- Date:
- 20 March 2018
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In The Sash Window Workshop Ltd and another v King [2018] IRLR 142 ECJ, the ECJ held that the right to paid annual leave of a "worker" who was treated as a self-employed, commission-only salesman could accumulate over an unlimited period, and that the worker was entitled to claim the accrued holiday pay on termination.
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- Date:
- 22 February 2018
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Ville de Nivelles v Matzak, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held that the time during which a firefighter is on standby at home and must be at the fire station within a matter of minutes counts as "working time".
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- Date:
- 21 February 2018
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service v Mansell and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that workers can be awarded compensation for injury to feelings in working time detriment claims.
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Date:
- 31 December 2017
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Willetts [2017] IRLR 870 EAT, the EAT held that payments for regularly worked voluntary overtime are part of a worker's "normal remuneration" for the purposes of calculating a week's pay in respect of a worker's holiday pay entitlement.
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- Type:
- Letters and forms
A model letter designating holiday dates for an employee who has not taken their full holiday entitlement.
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- Date:
- 29 November 2017
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The European Court of Justice has held that a worker must be able to carry over unused holiday when the employer does not put that worker in a position to exercise the right to take paid annual leave.
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- Date:
- 24 November 2017
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In this Portuguese case, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has held that the weekly rest period of 24 hours may be granted on any day during each seven-day period, and not necessarily the day following six consecutive working days.