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- Date:
- 30 January 2012
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that a worker who had not opted out of the 48-hour working week did not suffer detrimental treatment when his employer refused him the opportunity to work voluntary overtime on a rest day.
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- Date:
- 23 November 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The European Court of Justice has confirmed that the Working Time Directive (03/88/EC) does not require an unlimited accumulation of a worker's paid annual leave during a period of long-term sickness absence.
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- Date:
- 9 November 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
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.
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- Type:
- How to
Practical guidance on dealing with an employee who goes ahead with a holiday when annual leave has not been authorised, including investigating the unauthorised absence and disciplinary sanctions.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
Chris McAvoy, Cane Pickersgill, Tessa Harland, Sarah Wade and David Rintoul are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
Claire Benson is managing associate and Caroline Jacobs and Chris McAvoy are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.
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- Date:
- 20 September 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The European Court of Justice has considered whether or not "normal remuneration" during a period of annual leave should include allowances on top of basic pay, in the context of a dispute over how the holiday pay of British Airways pilots who are paid flying allowances as well as basic pay should be calculated.
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- Date:
- 15 September 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Court of Appeal has held that a lone security guard who could take a rest break during a 12-hour shift, but who had to be on call during that time and could start his rest break again if it was interrupted, was given "compensatory rest" under the Working Time Regulations 1998.
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Date:
- 1 August 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
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.