Employment law cases

All items: Pay and benefits

  • ECJ: British Airways pilots' holiday pay should include flying allowances

    Date:
    20 September 2011

    The European Court of Justice has considered whether or not "normal remuneration" during a period of annual leave should include allowances on top of basic pay, in the context of a dispute over how the holiday pay of British Airways pilots who are paid flying allowances as well as basic pay should be calculated. 

  • Case round-up

    Date:
    1 September 2011

    Claire Benson is managing associate and Caroline Jacobs and Chris McAvoy are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Equal pay: "same source" of terms and conditions

    Date:
    16 May 2011

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has considered the circumstances in which the terms and conditions of employees derive from the "same source" as their comparators for the purposes of the Equal Pay Act 1970. 

  • Non-contractual handbook's enhanced sick pay provisions were incorporated into contract

    Date:
    4 May 2011

    This case is a good example of how the terms of a staff handbook that is stated to be non-contractual can still be incorporated into an employee's contract of employment.

  • Managing director awarded almost £149,000 for payments not made

    Date:
    23 February 2011

    An industrial tribunal in Northern Ireland has awarded a managing director almost £149,000, which included an unusually large award for unlawful deductions from wages of £112,000.

  • Tribunal's literal interpretation of long-term disability scheme was correct

    Date:
    21 February 2011

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, on its true construction, a company's long-term disability scheme applied to employees who were permanently incapable of employment in any capacity, rather than merely incapable of working for the company. 

  • Case round-up

    Date:
    1 February 2011

    Tori O'Neil, associate, and Judith Harris, legal director, at Addleshaw Goddard detail the latest rulings.

  • Discretionary honorarium did not become contractual

    Date:
    27 January 2011

    This case concerned a common dispute at employment tribunals: whether or not a discretionary payment had become a contractual entitlement.

  • Case of the week: VAT on employee benefits

    Date:
    22 September 2010

    This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers VAT on employee benefits.

  • TUPE: Transferee not bound by transferor's post-transfer pay agreement

    Date:
    13 April 2010

    In Parkwood Leisure Ltd v Alemo-Herron and others [2010] EWCA Civ 24 CA, the Court of Appeal held that, where the transfer of an undertaking occurs, and the transferring employees' contracts contain a clause referring to a collective agreement between the transferor and the relevant union, the transferee is not obliged to recognise wage increases agreed by the transferor and the union after the transfer has occurred resulting from negotiations to which the transferee was not a party.

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