Overtime pay

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

  Type:

  FAQs

• Holiday pay: employment tribunal includes purely voluntary overtime

  Date:

  15 September 2016

  Type:

  Law reports

  An employment tribunal has held that payments for purely voluntary overtime should be included in holiday pay.

• Overtime arrangements and pay survey 2016

  Date:

  11 August 2016

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  We examine overtime working arrangements and pay rates in our 2016 survey.

• Working time: Voluntary overtime should have counted towards holiday pay

  Date:

  30 September 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Patterson v Castlereagh Borough Council [2015] IRLR 721 NICA, the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal held that a Northern Ireland industrial tribunal had erred in excluding voluntary overtime from the calculation of the claimant's outstanding holiday pay

• Holiday pay: Northern Ireland Court of Appeal decision suggests regular voluntary overtime should be included

  Date:

  26 June 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  The Northern Ireland Court of Appeal has held that there is no reason in principle why voluntary overtime should not be included in holiday pay, if it is normally carried out and is an "appropriately permanent feature" of the worker's remuneration.

• Holiday pay: Regular, non-guaranteed overtime pay to be included in holiday pay calculation

  Date:

  2 January 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Bear Scotland Ltd and others v Fulton and others; Hertel (UK) Ltd v Woods and others; Amec Group Ltd v Law and others [2015] IRLR 15 EAT, the EAT held that payment in respect of overtime that the worker is obliged to work when it is available, but that is not guaranteed by the employer, constitutes part of the worker's normal remuneration and as such should be included in the computation of the worker's holiday pay.

• Holiday pay should include non-guaranteed overtime, says EAT

  Date:

  4 November 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that regular non-guaranteed overtime should be included in holiday pay calculations, but the EAT has limited the potential for workers to succeed with claims for historical non-payment of holiday pay.

• Tribunal decides that holiday pay calculation should include overtime

  Date:

  18 September 2013

  Type:

  Law reports

  An employment tribunal has controversially held that a worker's overtime should be included in the calculation of holiday pay, in a decision that is sure to be appealed.

• Review an overtime system

  Type:

  Tasks

• How to set up and manage an overtime system

  Type:

  How to

  Practical guidance on how to set up and manage an overtime system, including overtime pay; time off in lieu and drafting an overtime policy.