All items: Meaning of working time

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  Anderson v Jarvis Hotels EATS/0062/05 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Anderson v Jarvis Hotels

    Date:

    23 July 2006

    In Anderson v Jarvis Hotels EATS/0062/05, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that an employee was contractually entitled to be paid for periods when he was required to sleep on the employer's premises, even though he rarely had to carry out any work during these periods.

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  Baxter v Titan Aviation Ltd EAT/0355/10 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 November 2011

    Chris McAvoy, Cane Pickersgill, Tessa Harland, Sarah Wade and David Rintoul are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

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  Dellas and others v Premier Ministre and another [2006] IRLR 225 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up: On-call working

    Date:

    14 February 2006

    This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering on-call working.

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  Edwards and another v Encirc Ltd [2015] IRLR 528 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Working time: Time attending trade union and health and safety meetings constituted working time

    Date:

    1 August 2015

    In Edwards and another v Encirc Ltd [2015] IRLR 528 EAT, the EAT held that the time employee representatives spent attending trade union and health and safety meetings constituted "working time" under the Working Time Regulations 1998.

  • EAT decides working time includes attendance at union meetings

    Date:

    12 May 2015

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that the employment tribunal adopted an unduly restrictive approach when deciding that the time spent by two trade union representatives attending union meetings during the day was not "working time". The EAT said that the correct approach is to take into account the aims of the EU Directive relating to working time.

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  Edwards v Encirc Ltd ET/2412489/2013 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employment tribunal decides attendance at union meetings is not "working time"

    Date:

    7 November 2014

    Two trade union representatives working night shifts claimed that the time they spent attending union meetings during the day was "working time" and so they were entitled to an 11-hour rest period from the end of the meetings until the start of their next night shift. The employment tribunal rejected this claim.

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  Federación de Servicios Privados del sindicato Comisiones Obreras v Tyco Integrated Security SL and another [2015] IRLR 935 ECJ (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Working time: Travel between home and first and last customer appointments is working time

    Date:

    31 January 2016

    In Federación de Servicios Privados del sindicato Comisiones Obreras v Tyco Integrated Security SL and another [2015] IRLR 935 ECJ, the ECJ held that, for peripatetic workers who travel directly to customer addresses from home and who travel home directly from customer addresses at the end of the working day, the time spent travelling on those first and last journeys of the day is working time within the meaning of art.2 of the Working Time Directive.

  • Travelling time for workers with no usual place of work counts as working time

    Date:

    10 September 2015

    The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has held that where a worker has no usual place of work, time spent travelling from and to home for the first and last customer visits of the day, should be counted as working time.

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  Hughes v Graham and another t/a Graylyns Residential Home [2008] All ER (D) 137 (Oct) EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case of the week: Working time

    Date:

    28 October 2008

    This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers working time.

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  Landeshauptstadt Kiel v Jaeger [2003] IRLR 804 ECJ (4 reports relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 December 2003

    Our resident experts at Pinsents bring you a comprehensive update on all the latest decisions that could affect your organisation, and advice on what to do about them.

  • Case round-up: on-call hours; and statutory sick pay

    Date:

    28 October 2003

    This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering: on-call hours; and statutory sick pay.

  • ECJ: On-call working is working time

    Date:

    1 October 2003

    In case C:151/02 Landeshauptstadt Kiel v Norbert Jaeger, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on 9 September 2003 that all on-call duty at a place determined by an employer constitutes working time in its entirety, even where the employee is permitted to rest at the place of work when their services are not required.

  • ECJ: On-call work in hospitals should be counted as working time

    Date:

    1 May 2003

    In case C-151/02 Landeshauptstadt Kiel v Norbert Jaeger, Advocate-General Ruiz-Jarabo stated on 8 April that all time spent by a doctor on call in a hospital constitutes working time for the purposes of community law.

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  MacCartney v Oversley House Management [2006] IRLR 514 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Case round-up: On-call working

    Date:

    11 April 2006

    This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering on-call working.

  • Working time/national minimum wage: Entire duty on call found to be 'working time'

    Date:

    7 April 2006

    In MacCartney v Oversley House Management, the EAT the Employment Appeal Tribunal holds that an employee who was required to remain on call at or close to her place of work was 'working' even if her employer provided her with a home at her place of work.

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  Sindicato de Médicos de Asistencia Pública (SIMAP) v Conselleria de Sanidad y Consumo de la Generalidad Valenciana [2000] IRLR 845 ECJ (1 report relating to this case)

  • Working time: Doctors' on-call time at work was "working time"

    Date:

    1 November 2000

    In Sindicato de Médicos de Asistencia Pública (Simap) v Conselleria de Sanidad y Consumo de la Generalidad Valenciana, the ECJ rules that all of the time spent on call by teams of doctors providing primary care at health centres was "working time", within the meaning of the EC Working Time Directive, if they were required to be at the health centres.