Standby and call-out allowances

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• Date:

  22 July 2021

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2021: Childcare benefits, long-service awards and other benefits and allowances

  We look at some of the less common employee benefits and allowances on offer away from the more well-known health and wellbeing, travel and subsistence and pension perks.

• 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.