In Ville de Nivelles v Matzak, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held that the time during which a firefighter is on standby at home and must be at the fire station within a matter of minutes counts as "working time".
In South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service v Mansell and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that workers can be awarded compensation for injury to feelings in working time detriment claims.
In Blakely v On-Site Recruitment Solutions Ltd and another, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) allowed the appeal against the finding that the claimant was neither a worker nor an employer because the tribunal's reasoning was fundamentally flawed.