Anomaly raised in ruling on sickness holiday pay

This report relates to 1 case(s)

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  Kigass Aero Components Ltd v Brown [2002] IRLR 312 EAT (2 other reports)

  • Holiday pay: Workers on long-term sickness absence were entitled to holiday pay

    Date:

    24 June 2002

    In Kigass Aero Components Ltd v Brown, Bold Transmission Parts Ltd v Taree and Macredie v Thrapston Garage, the EAT holds that workers on long-term sick leave, so long as they continued to be employed, continued to accrue holiday entitlement and could claim holiday pay under the Working Time Regulations 1998 even in circumstances where they had been absent from work throughout the particular leave year and where their contractual sick pay had run out.

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    Date:

    1 April 2002

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