Managing employees/workers
In Merino Gomez v Continental Industrias del Caucho SA, the European Court of Justice holds that pregnant workers have a dual entitlement to annual leave and maternity leave: pregnant workers must be able to take their annual leave during a period other than their period of maternity leave.
Voluntary workers were not "employees" as defined in s.68 of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, holds the EAT in South East Sheffield Citizens Advice Bureau v Grayson (17 November 2003).
In Alabaster v Woolwich plc, the European Court of Justice holds that article 119 (now 141) of the EC Treaty of Rome requires that earnings-related maternity pay must reflect any pay rise awarded between the start of the reference period (upon which the level of the earnings-related maternity pay is based) and the end of the employee's maternity leave.
A model contract clause to set out terms relating to compressed hours of work.
In Bamsey and others v Albon Engineering & Manufacturing plc [2004] IRLR 457 CA, the Court of Appeal held that where overtime hours have been worked during the 12-week period immediately preceding the date on which a worker's holiday begins only those hours that the employer is contractually required to provide and the worker contractually required to work count as normal working hours for the purposes of determining the amount of a week's pay.
HR and legal information and guidance relating to managing employees/workers.