Long-service awards

New and updated

• Type:

  Employment law manual

  Basic pay and benefits

  Updated to include revised advisory fuel rates, effective from 1 March 2021.

• Date:

  30 July 2020

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2020: Childcare benefits, long-service awards and other benefits and allowances

  With organisations often offering upwards of 20 different benefits and allowances to their staff, we look at those beyond health-related benefits, company cars and pensions, to see what else is on offer.

• Date:

  24 June 2019

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2019: Childcare benefits, long-service awards and other benefits and allowances

  Away from health-related benefits, company cars and pensions, there are a host of other benefits available to employers to boost the package they offer to employees. We investigate some of the other benefits available.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Long-service awards policy

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Type:

  Employment glossary

  Long-service award

  Definition from the XpertHR glossary.

• Type:

  Tasks

  Introduce, manage and review a long-service award scheme

• Type:

  FAQs

  Are long-service awards incompatible with the Equality Act 2010?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Where it is a company's policy to give a small gift to employees who have completed periods of service of multiples of 10 years could this be discriminatory under the Equality Act 2010?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Is it permissible to award greater holiday entitlement to employees who have, for example, 10 years' service?

• Date:

  9 November 2009

  Type:

  Law reports

  Pulham and others v London Borough of Barking and Dagenham

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, contrary to the position with sex discrimination, pay protection arrangements that are discriminatory on the ground of age are always potentially justifiable.