Standby and call-out allowances

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

  Date:

  24 June 2019

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  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.

• 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.

• Christmas and New Year working arrangements 2016/2017

  Date:

  7 November 2016

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR's latest research on Christmas and New Year working arrangements finds that employers will spend an average of £27,000 on celebrations during the 2016/2017 holiday period.

• Standby or on-call allowance

  Type:

  Employment glossary

  Definition from the XpertHR glossary.

• Call-out payment

  Type:

  Employment glossary

  Definition from the XpertHR glossary.

• Overtime pay, discretionary bonuses and standby allowances not included in holiday pay, says employment tribunal

  Date:

  13 February 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  An employment tribunal has found that a worker's holiday pay should be calculated by reference only to his or her basic pay, excluding overtime pay, discretionary bonuses and standby allowances, taking a more straightforward approach than the tribunal in the controversial decision in Neal v Freightliner Ltd.

• Review a standby and call-out system

  Type:

  Tasks

• Introduce a standby and call-out system

  Type:

  Tasks

• Standby allowance contract clause

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  A model contract clause on pay for standby or call-out duty.

• Smith v Oxfordshire Learning Disability NHS Trust

  Date:

  9 December 2009

  Type:

  Law reports

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that a sleep-in payment was not an allowance for the purpose of the national minimum wage. Therefore it should not be excluded from the calculation of the hourly rate paid by the employer.