The Court of Appeal has held that a debt claim for a company's failure to provide pay in lieu of notice to a former employee could not be defended by the discovery after the termination of employment that he committed gross misconduct while in employment.
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that employees on sick leave must, to be paid for holiday under the Working Time Regulations 1998, give the required statutory notice during the relevant leave year of their intention to take that holiday.
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that a worker absent for the whole leave year, but who does not submit a request for the annual leave before the leave year ends, does not forfeit his or her entitlement to paid annual leave.
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that the tribunal was correct to find that a termination payment labelled as "ex gratia" was not pay in lieu of notice.
The Court of Appeal has held that an employee's contract of employment was terminated by the transfer of pay in lieu of notice into his bank account, even though he did not know at the time that this had happened.