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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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

  Type:

  FAQs

• 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.

• Is overtime included when calculating hourly pay for the purposes of the gender pay gap reporting duty?

  Type:

  FAQs