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- Date:
- 11 June 2019
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In East of England Ambulance NHS Trust v Flowers and others, the Court of Appeal held that ambulance workers are contractually entitled to have voluntary overtime included in the calculation of their holiday pay and, under the Working Time Directive (2003/88/EC), to have it included where it is sufficiently regular and settled.
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- Type:
- Policies and procedures
A model policy to set out the principles regarding employees' working hours.
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- Type:
- Survey analysis
XpertHR research looks at employers' provision of annual leave and holiday pay.
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- Date:
- 16 May 2019
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Federación de Servicios de Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) v Deutsche Bank SAE, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held that EU law means that Spanish legislation should require employers to set up a system to record workers' actual daily working time.
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- Date:
- 26 April 2019
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
In light of new guidance for local government employers on term-time workers, consultant editor Darren Newman looks for a simple way to calculate the holiday entitlement of employees who work only during school terms.
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- Date:
- 13 March 2019
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd v Crawford, the Court of Appeal held that, under reg.24 of the Working Time Regulations 1998 (SI 1998/1833), a compensatory rest period need not consist of an uninterrupted 20 minutes provided that it has the same value in terms of contributing to the worker's wellbeing.
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- Date:
- 7 November 2018
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Kreuziger v Land Berlin and Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV v Shimizu, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held that a worker who does not apply for leave does not automatically lose the right to a payment in lieu on termination of employment.
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- Date:
- 7 November 2018
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Stadt Wuppertal v Bauer; Volker Willmeroth als Inhaber der TWI Technische Wartung und Instandsetzung Volker Willmeroth eK v Broßonn, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held that a German law that prevents a payment in lieu of a deceased worker's outstanding annual leave from forming part of their estate is incompatible with EU law.
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- Type:
- Training
Enhanced with the addition of talking points for training sessions.
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- Date:
- 11 May 2018
- Type:
- Survey analysis
XpertHR research looks at employers' arrangements for managing the impact of major sporting events and other special events when they coincide with working hours.