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- Type:
- Letters and forms
A model letter to seek a former employee's consent to make a deduction from their final salary payment where an overpayment was discovered after the individual left your organisation.
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Date:
- 1 September 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Claire Benson is managing associate and Caroline Jacobs and Chris McAvoy are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.
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- Type:
- Contract clauses
A model agreement allowing an employer to make deductions from an employee's pay for repayment of a loan.
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- Date:
- 4 May 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This case is a good example of how the terms of a staff handbook that is stated to be non-contractual can still be incorporated into an employee's contract of employment.
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- Date:
- 23 February 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
An industrial tribunal in Northern Ireland has awarded a managing director almost £149,000, which included an unusually large award for unlawful deductions from wages of £112,000.
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- Date:
- 27 January 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This case concerned a common dispute at employment tribunals: whether or not a discretionary payment had become a contractual entitlement.
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- Date:
- 26 August 2009
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In HM Revenue and Customs v Stringer and others sub nom Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Ainsworth and others [2009] IRLR 677 HL, the House of Lords held that a claim for unpaid holiday due under the Working Time Regulations 1998 can be brought as an unlawful deductions from wages claim under ss.13 and 23 of the Employment Rights Act 1996.
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- Date:
- 27 April 2009
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Small and others v Boots Co and another [2009] All ER (D) 200 (Jan) EAT, the EAT held that the fact that the employer had stated that a bonus was discretionary did not necessarily mean that it had no contractual effect. The employer's discretion could relate to: whether or not to operate a bonus system at all; whether or not to award a bonus in a given year; or the amount of bonus to be awarded.
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- Date:
- 19 January 2009
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employment tribunal did not have jurisdiction to hear claims against British Airways for non-payment of flying allowances to cabin crew who had not been able to fly because of an airport closure.