Standby and call-out allowances

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• Date:

  30 July 2020

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2020: Childcare benefits, long-service awards and other benefits and allowances

  With organisations often offering upwards of 20 different benefits and allowances to their staff, we look at those beyond health-related benefits, company cars and pensions, to see what else is on offer.

• Date:

  24 June 2019

  Type:

  Survey analysis

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

  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.

• Date:

  7 November 2016

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Christmas and New Year working arrangements 2016/2017

  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.

• Type:

  Employment glossary

  Standby or on-call allowance

  Definition from the XpertHR glossary.

• Type:

  Employment glossary

  Call-out payment

  Definition from the XpertHR glossary.

• Date:

  13 February 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

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

  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.

• Type:

  Tasks

  Introduce, manage and review a standby and call-out system

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Standby allowance contract clause

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

• Date:

  9 December 2009

  Type:

  Law reports

  Smith v Oxfordshire Learning Disability NHS Trust

  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.

• Date:

  1 May 2009

  Type:

  Law reports

  British Airways plc v Williams and others

  The Court of Appeal has held that British Airways was not in breach of statutory holiday pay requirements when it calculated pilots' paid annual leave by reference to their basic salary rather than what they would expect to earn when flying allowances were added.