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• 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.

• XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2018: Overview of benefits provision

  Date:

  28 June 2018

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  The range of possible benefits available for organisations to offer their employees is vast, but the right mix needs to be chosen to attract and retain the employees they need. We look at some of the most common benefits and allowances, and the level of offering.

• 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.