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• Basic pay and benefits: local authority

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include the recently agreed new national pay scale, effective from 1 April 2018, and the revised pay spine to come into effect on 1 April 2019.

• Cases on appeal

  Date:

  1 January 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  Cases on appeal provides news on key case law developments that are expected.

• Holiday pay: Payment for voluntary overtime normally worked is part of "normal remuneration"

  Date:

  31 December 2017

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Willetts [2017] IRLR 870 EAT, the EAT held that payments for regularly worked voluntary overtime are part of a worker's "normal remuneration" for the purposes of calculating a week's pay in respect of a worker's holiday pay entitlement.

• UK needs to rethink overtime, claims the Resolution Foundation

  Date:

  12 December 2017

  Type:

  News

  One in 10 workers did paid overtime in the UK in the past year but only a fifth received "time and half" or more for working those hours.

• Podcast: Holiday pay includes voluntary overtime

  Date:

  11 August 2017

  Type:

  Audio and video

  We discuss the legal implications for employers of the recent EAT decision in Dudley Council v Willets and others, which establishes that regular voluntary overtime is included in holiday pay calculations.

• When does overtime have to be included in holiday pay?

  Type:

  FAQs

• EAT rules that holiday pay should include entirely voluntary overtime

  Date:

  2 August 2017

  Type:

  Law reports

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that entirely voluntary overtime should be included in normal remuneration for calculating holiday pay.

• Holiday pay: Regular voluntary overtime included, says EAT

  Date:

  1 August 2017

  Type:

  News

  Payments for purely voluntary overtime should be included in holiday pay if they are regular enough to constitute "normal pay", the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has confirmed.

• XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2017: Long-service, childcare and travel benefits

  Date:

  13 July 2017

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Here, we look at the findings from the XpertHR survey of benefits and allowances, presenting data on the availability of a number of benefits including long-service awards, childcare and travel benefits, location payments, volunteer days and various allowances.

• Ambulance workers' holiday pay should include overtime for "shift overruns"

  Date:

  30 May 2017

  Type:

  Law reports

  An employment tribunal has held that ambulance workers' non-guaranteed overtime in respect of "shift overruns" should be included in the calculation of their holiday pay, but that on the facts of this case purely voluntary overtime does not have to be included.