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UK’s EAT opens door to tighter limits on holiday accrual during long-term...

At last! A holiday pay ruling that doesn’t make your head spin or leave you with more questions when you put it down than you had before reading it. Mr Plumb was off sick from his work at Duncan Print...

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Lawrence of Arabia makes surprise contribution to UK holiday pay debate

There is a line in, I think, Lawrence of Arabia where a terrified young soldier trapped under fire with a small group of his colleagues asks Peter O’Toole as Lawrence what they  are going to do....

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EAT fails to clarify UK holiday pay entitlements, even slightly

Right, there it is, and still no one really any the wiser as to what to do about it. The decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal in British Gas -v- Lock Lock v British Gas reaches the inevitable...

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We’re all going on a summer holiday – new Acas guidance for the vacation season

For all those HR stalwarts stuck in the office while their charges are off on holiday, here are some brief bits of news from Acas to help pass the time: Acas’ Holiday Pay guidance has been updated,...

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British Gas v Lock: UK Court of Appeal gives its verdict

The Court of Appeal has today given its decision in the long running holiday pay case of British Gas v Lock.  It has apparently confirmed that EU leave, i.e. the four weeks’ leave derived from the...

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Court of Appeal’s holiday pay decision offers glimmer of hope to employers

Never, as Winston Churchill would certainly not have said, has any Court judgement awaited so eagerly by so many said so little about so much. The Court of Appeal has now issued its ruling in the Lock...

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Holiday pay in the UK – the great unanswered question

As we have said many times before on this blog, it is all very well for the Courts and Tribunals to say that overtime must be “taken into account” for holiday pay purposes.  What is missing for...

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They think it’s all over for holiday pay disputes – is it now?

Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court refused British Gas consent to appeal the Lock holiday pay case any further, finally putting an end to the five year saga of whether an element in respect of commission...

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New Acas guidance on holiday pay and accrual during sickness

The Acas National Newsletter for June, out earlier this week, contains some slightly updated advice on the eternal question of how you calculate holiday pay, plus an existential poser on the...

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Mind the gap – a note for the statutory construction industry

And here is why we should be careful when construing employment law statutes about attaching too much importance to contrasts between different legislative provisions. I don’t pretend to have spotted...

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The form labor agreement that’s making headlines in Japan

Last week, Japanese newspapers reported that a national medical research center in the suburbs of Osaka had entered into a so-called “36 agreement” with its doctors and nurses in 2012, allowing these...

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Holiday Party Tips to Ensure Too Much Cheer Does Not Turn Into a New Year’s...

With the holiday season upon us, now is the time to assess your company’s upcoming holiday party, with the biggest concern being employee alcohol consumption. While there is no way to completely...

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New Acas guidance on UK overtime fluffs holiday pay advice (again)

Perhaps that is not really fair – Acas’ new guidance on overtime certainly does what it can to help employers on the vexed question of whether and how you take overtime into account for holiday pay...

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Five Weeks’ Vacation for Everybody?! (CZ)

The so-called “big amendment” to the Czech Labour Code is currently under preparation in the Czech Republic. The amendment consists of many interesting proposed changes, one of which, in particular,...

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England beats Germany on penalties in new holiday pay decision (UK)

Flowers –v- East of England Ambulance Services NHS Trust this month concerned a claim by a number of workers in the Trust ambulance service that their holiday pay should include an allowance in respect...

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Yet Another Holiday Pay Decision (UK)

This time concerning how holiday pay should be calculated for those who only work for part of the year, e.g. term-time workers, and arguably proof positive of the old legal maxim that “hard cases make...

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We’re all going on a summer holiday – avoiding the Cliff of unwelcome accrual...

New Coronavirus measures seem to arrive every day, but some old-fashioned issues still rock along underneath them, including just what happens when travel restrictions and the closure of everything fun...

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Revised rules on holiday carry-over don’t fully resolve employer’s concerns (UK)

Hot on the heels of my piece about the inevitable build-up of holiday entitlements thwarted by the Coronavirus comes the announcement by the Government that the Working Time Regulations are to be...

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Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme – first two weeks on the front line (UK)

As anyone who has spent the last fortnight trying to apply the Government’s CJRS knows, there is currently no actual law.  Bar some guidance clearly not written by employment or HR specialists (hence...

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Silent tweetment for holidays in new furlough guidance (UK)

When all this is over and the UK looks back to see what we learnt from the Coronavirus crisis, maybe somewhere on the list will be a point on making law by Twitter.  #askRishi on Friday evening was an...

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