The Court of Appeal has held that holiday pay for a teacher in permanent employment but working term-time only on irregular hours, should be calculated based on a 12-week average of hours worked. Below is a summary of the case of The Harpur Trust v Brazel: The Claimant is a music teacher in permanent employment but working term-time only, on irregular hours (around 32) per week. The EAT held that her holiday pay should be calculated based on a 12-week average of hours worked,

In a speech on the future of the labour market, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions said that government will at last be shortly consulting on reforming Statutory Sick Pay. At the Recruitment and Employment Confederation on May 28th, talking about the future of the Labour Market, Amber Rudd said: “We will shortly consult on reforming Statutory Sick Pay, in order to better support employers to retain staff who experience health problems. The current system is failing

Employees and their family members who are EU citizens may be able to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme to continue living in the UK after 30 June 2021. Guidance on Gov.Uk together with an online application process is available for EU citizens now, if this application route is used, paper records and evidence will still need to be submitted in order to complete the process. An app has been created to work on Android devices which removes the need to submit paper evidence and

A survey by Lee Hecht Harrison Penna showed only 28% of workers booked their entire allocated annual leave by the end of November 2018, meaning 72% had holiday allowance they did not book off work. Part time workers finish their working year with the most amount of holiday time left unused: those working less than 8 hours a week had almost two weeks (9.8 days) of annual leave left over. Workers in Norwich appear to be the biggest workaholics, with almost a day and a half (1

The Advocate General in a Court of European Justice (CJEU) case, delivered on 31 January 2019, has suggested that an employer should keep records of actual hours worked to fulfil its obligations under the Working Time Directive Is it necessary for an employer to keep records of actual hours worked to fulfil its obligations under the Working Time Directive? Yes, suggests Advocate General Pitruzzella in the CJEU in Federacion de Servicios de Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) v Deutsche

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ACAS offer some great advice about how to manage employee absence from now until mid-July whilst football fever grips the country. #ACAS #employeeabsence #pelicangrey http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2953