All items: Time off for trade union activities

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  Ashley v Ministry of Defence [1984] IRLR 57 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Time off: Relevance of agreed time off scheme

    Date:

    24 January 1984

    In assessing the reasonableness of the amount of paid time off for trade union duties under s.27(2) of the EP(C)A, the terms of a collectively agreed time off scheme ought to be taken into account, suggests the EAT in Ashley v Ministry of Defence.

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  Davies and Alderton v Head Wrightson Teesdale Ltd [1979] IRLR 170 IT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Time off for trade union activities: Entitlement to paid time off relates to contractual hours

    Date:

    18 April 1979

    Section 27(1) of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act gives officials of recognised independent trade unions the right to time off with pay during their working hours to carry out their union duties and to undergo training. According to the Industrial Tribunal in Davies and Alderton v Head Wrightson Teesdale Ltd, the reference to the employee's "working hours" in s.27(1) means that a union official is entitled to be paid for time taken in accordance with this provision only in respect of time which, in accordance with his contract of employment, he would otherwise be required to be at work.

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  Davies v Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council [1999] IRLR 769 EAT (3 reports relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: Principle of equal pay applies to union training courses

    Date:

    1 December 1999

    An employer contravened the principle of equal pay for equal work contained in Article 141 of the Treaty of Rome when it paid a part-time employee who attended a full-time union training course her normal part-time pay rather than payment for the hours actually spent attending the course, holds the EAT in Davies v Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council.

  • Equal pay law means that part-time workers are entitled to full pay for full-time safety rep training

    Date:

    1 November 1999

    In Davies v Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) uses EC equal pay law to rule that an employer has to pay a trade union health and safety representative for all five days of a training course, even though it employs her on a part-time basis.

  • Equal pay for time off

    Date:

    1 November 1999

    In Davies v Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council (15 September 1999) EOR88D, the EAT rules that a part-time worker who was given time off to attend a full-time trade union course was entitled under European law to be paid as if she were a full-time worker.

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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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  Hairsine v Kingston-Upon-Hull City Council [1992] IRLR 211 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Time off: Right to paid time off only during working hours

    Date:

    1 April 1992

    In Hairsine v Kingston-upon-Hull City Council, the EAT holds that a trade union official's right to paid time off work for training is limited to those hours when the employee would normally be at work. If the training course falls outside those hours, the employee is not entitled to paid time off "in lieu" during his or her contractual working hours.

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  London Ambulance Service v Charlton and others [1992] IRLR 510 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • London Ambulance Service v Charlton and others

    Date:

    1 November 1992

    In London Ambulance Service v Charlton and others [1992] IRLR 510 EAT, the EAT held that the Industrial Tribunal had not erred in law in holding that the respondent union officials had met the requirements for paid time off under the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act, section 27(1)(a) in respect of their attendance at a meeting of a committee set up by the union to coordinate the activities of its district committees within the London Ambulance Service.

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  Luce v London Borough of Bexley [1990] IRLR 422 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Time off: Parliamentary lobby not a trade union activity

    Date:

    5 September 1990

    An industrial tribunal was entitled to find that, in the circumstances of this case, lobbying of Parliament was not a trade union activity entitling union members to time off.

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  Manor Bakeries Ltd v Nazir [1996] IRLR 604 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Equal pay: No right to equal pay for time off

    Date:

    15 January 1997

    Unless there is work, and pay for that work, the equal pay principle in Article 119 of the Treaty of Rome has no application, holds the EAT in Manor Bakeries Ltd v Nazir.

  • No right to equal pay for time off

    Date:

    1 November 1996

    In Manor Bakeries Ltd v Nazir (1 August 1996) EOR70B, the EAT rejects a part-time worker's equal pay claim under EC law in respect of paid time off to attend a trade union conference as a delegate. According to the EAT, Article 119 of the EC Treaty confers a right to equal pay for equal work, and attendance at a union conference is not "work".

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  Ryford Ltd v Drinkwater [1996] IRLR 16 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Time off: Employer must be aware of request for time off

    Date:

    1 October 1995

    An employee cannot complain that he or she has been refused time off for trade union duties unless it is established that a request for time off was made which came to the notice of the employer's appropriate representative, and that they either refused it, ignored it or failed to respond to it, holds the EAT in Ryford Ltd v Drinkwater.