All items: Pay and benefits

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  British Airways plc v Williams and others [2010] IRLR 541 SC (1 report relating to this case)

  • British Airways plc v Williams and others

    Date:

    30 March 2010

    The Supreme Court has referred the question of what is meant by "paid annual leave" in the Civil Aviation Directive (2000/79/EC) and the Working Time Directive (93/104/EC) to the European Court of Justice. The issue arises in a claim by pilots that British Airways breached the statutory holiday pay requirements when it calculated pilots' paid annual leave by reference to their basic salary rather than what they would expect to earn when flying allowances were added.

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  British Airways plc v Williams and others [2012] IRLR 1014 SC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Supreme Court remits holiday pay case brought by British Airways pilots to employment tribunal

    Date:

    17 October 2012

    The Supreme Court has remitted to the employment tribunal the case brought by British Airways pilots in relation to the inclusion of flying allowances in the calculation of their holiday pay, following the results of the reference to the European Court of Justice on whether or not "normal remuneration" during a period of annual leave should include allowances on top of basic pay. 

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  British Nursing Association v Inland Revenue (National Minimum Wage Compliance Team) [2002] IRLR 480 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • National minimum wage: Minimum wage is payable for all home night-duty hours

    Date:

    7 October 2002

    Workers who provided a "seamless" 24-hour service dealing with telephone calls from clients who required the services of "bank nurses" were, for the purposes of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999, "working" throughout the nightshifts when they took the calls at their homes, holds the Court of Appeal in British Nursing Association v Inland Revenue (National Minimum Wage Compliance Team).

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  Brompton v AOC International Ltd and Unum Ltd [1997] IRLR 639 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Employee did not abandon long-term sickness rights

    Date:

    1 December 1997

    An employee's entitlement to benefit under his employer's permanent health insurance scheme was not terminated merely because he undertook some different work while incapacitated from working in his original job, as the scheme provided for payment of reduced benefits in such circumstances, holds the Court of Appeal in Brompton v (1) AOC International Ltd (2) Unum Ltd.

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  Brown v Chief Adjudication Officer [1997] IRLR 110 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Statutory pay: Casual worker entitled to SSP

    Date:

    1 December 1996

    In Brown v Chief Adjudication Officer, the Court of Appeal holds that an employer was liable to pay statutory sick pay (SSP) to a part-time employee who had been continuously employed for more than three months under a series of daily contracts.

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  Burlo v Langley and another [2007] IRLR 145 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Unfair dismissal compensation: Norton Tool not general authority for awarding more than actual loss

    Date:

    16 February 2007

    In Burlo v Langley and another [2006] EWCA Civ 1778 the Court of Appeal holds that an employee's compensation for lack of notice was restricted to her actual loss where she would have been in receipt of statutory sick pay during the notice period.

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  Burrow Down Support Services Ltd v Rossiter EAT/0592/07 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Burrow Down Support Services Ltd v Rossiter

    Date:

    17 July 2008

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld an employment tribunal decision that an employee who was allowed to sleep for much of his shift, but had to deal with anything untoward that might arise, was entitled to be paid the national minimum wage for the whole shift.

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  Burrow v Burrow [1999] 1 FLR 508 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • In court 1999

    Date:

    1 January 2000

    Our 10th annual round-up of court and tribunal cases concerning pensions and retirement issues encompasses 38 judgments. Last year saw some important decisions, but fewer cases overall than in recent years.

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  Bury Metropolitan Borough Council v Hamilton and others EAT/0413-5/09 & EAT/0241/09 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 March 2011

    Judith Harris, legal director, James Buckley, associate, Dinu Suntook, associate, at Addleshaw Goddard detail the latest rulings.

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  Byrne Brothers (Formwork) Ltd v Baird and others [2002] IRLR 96 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Working time: Labour-only subcontractors were "workers" under the Working Time Regulations

    Date:

    15 February 2002

    In Byrne Brothers (Formwork) Ltd v Baird and others the EAT upholds an employment tribunal's decision that labour-only subcontractors were "workers" for the purposes of the Working Time Regulations 1998. On the facts, they had a contract of personal service, despite the limited power to delegate work. They were not engaged in their own business undertaking and there was the necessary mutuality of obligations.