All items: Benefits and allowances

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  Ali and others v Christian Salvesen Food Services Ltd [1995] IRLR 624 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: "Annualised hours" contract contained implied term on overtime pay

    Date:

    1 September 1995

    In Ali and others v Christian Salvesen Food Services plc the EAT holds that a contract of employment, which provided that overtime payments would be made only when the employee had worked more than the annualised hours total of 1,824 hours in the working year, contained an implied term entitling the employee, whose employment terminated several months before the end of the working year, to overtime payments in certain circumstances.

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  Ali and others v Christian Salvesen Food Services Ltd [1997] IRLR 17 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: No implied term in "annualised hours" contract

    Date:

    15 December 1996

    In Christian Salvesen Food Services Ltd v Ali and others, the Court of Appeal considers an "annualised hours" contract, deriving from a collective agreement, under which employees were paid a standard wage for a notional 40-hour week, but overtime became payable only after 1,824 hours had been worked in a 12-month period.

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  Aspden v Webbs Poultry & Meat Group (Holdings) Ltd [1996] IRLR 521 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Contracts of employment: Term implied to entitle employee to permanent health insurance

    Date:

    15 November 1996

    In Aspden v Webbs Poultry & Meat Group (Holdings) Ltd, the High Court implies a term into an employee's contract of employment providing that, save for summary dismissal, the employer would not terminate the contract while the employee was incapacitated for work.

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  AstraZeneca UK Ltd v HMRC Case C-40/09 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • 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.

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  Aviation & Airport Services Ltd v Bellfield [2001] All ER (D) 164 (Mar) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • National Minimum Wage: Attendance allowance did not count towards national minimum wage pay

    Date:

    1 May 2001

    In Aviation & Airport Services Ltd v Bellfield and others, the EAT holds that a weekly allowance payable to employees subject to full attendance in a given week was not "attributable to the performance of the worker in carrying out his work".

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  Barrie and others v Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council EAT/224/94 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Deductions from wages: Car allowances not "wages"

    Date:

    1 February 1996

    In Barrie and others v Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council, the EAT holds that car allowances paid to employees of the council were wholly in respect of expenses incurred by them in doing their jobs.

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  Bates v Chubb Security Personnel Ltd [2004] All ER (D) 121 (Sep) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up: Variation of contract proves expensive

    Date:

    9 November 2004

    This week's case round-up from Eversheds, looking at contract variations in TUPE transfers.

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  Birmingham City Council v Wetherill and others [2007] IRLR 781 CA (1 report relating to this case)

  • Variation of contract terms: The variation of a car allowance scheme should have been accompanied by transitional protection

    Date:

    4 September 2007

    In Wetherill & Ors v Birmingham City Council [2007] EWCA Civ 599 the Court of Appeal held that a local authority was entitled to vary a car allowance scheme unilaterally, but was in breach of contract by failing to provide adequate transitional protection for affected employees.

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  Blow and others v Boots; Jones and others v Boots; Onuorah v Boots; McDaniel v Boots ET/2602102/2011 and other cases (1 report relating to this case)

  • Boots unlawfully reduced long-serving workers' pay premium for Sundays and bank holidays

    Date:

    9 July 2012

    In this case, the retailer Boots took a business decision to reduce long-serving workers' double time for Sunday and bank holiday working to time-and-a-half, but the employment tribunal found this to be an unlawful variation of the workers' terms and conditions of employment.

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  Braganza v BP Shipping Ltd and another [2015] IRLR 487 SC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 June 2015

    John Bracken and Nancy Goldman-Edwards are trainee solicitors and Chris McAvoy, Lucy Sorell and Rachael Wake are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.