Pay and benefits

New and updated

• Pay and benefits: key differences in Scotland and Northern Ireland

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include a reference to the Scottish Government's announcement concerning its proposed increase to the student loan repayment threshold.

• Sleep-in care workers not entitled to national minimum wage while asleep

  Date:

  16 July 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake; Shannon v Rampersad and another t/a Clifton House Residential Home, the Court of Appeal held that a "sleep-in" care worker in residential accommodation was not entitled to be paid the national minimum wage while asleep.

• XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2018: Travel benefits and subsistence allowances

  Date:

  12 July 2018

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  We examine the terms on which company cars and car allowances are offered as a benefit to employees.

• XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2018: Childcare benefits, long-service awards and other benefits and allowances

  Date:

  12 July 2018

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  We examine the provision of some of the wide range of benefits and allowances offered by respondents to XpertHR's research, including childcare benefits, long-service awards, charity days, location allowances, and standby and call-out payments.

• Ambulance workers' holiday pay must include "regular and settled" voluntary overtime

  Date:

  12 July 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Flowers and others v East of England Ambulance Trust, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that voluntary overtime must be included in the calculation of holiday pay for ambulance workers with a pattern of voluntary overtime that is sufficiently regular and settled.

• Card Factory among minimum wage underpayment employers

  Date:

  6 July 2018

  Type:

  News

  Card Factory, Odeon & UCI Cinema Group and Wyevale Garden Centres have been named among 239 employers found to have underpaid the national minimum wage.

• MP to challenge 'ageist' national living wage in Commons

  Date:

  5 July 2018

  Type:

  News

  A Labour MP is urging the government to end the exclusion of under 25s from the national living wage after it was revealed younger workers are paid a third less than their older colleagues.

• Health benefits

  Type:

  Good practice manual

  Good practice guidance on health benefits, including the business case for investing in employee health benefits, which benefits are available, and what employers need to consider when providing the most common benefits to employees.

• Consultation on strengthening Pensions Regulator's powers to protect defined-benefit pensions

  Type:

  Consultations

  The Government consults on proposals to enhance the Pensions Regulator's powers to protect defined-benefit pension scheme members.

• Minister showed 'contempt' in botched civil service pay consultation

  Date:

  29 June 2018

  Type:

  News

  Unions and the Labour Party have condemned the government's 2018 civil service pay guidance remit and called for its immediate withdrawal while consultation and negotiations take place.