-
- Date:
- 10 March 2009
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Schultz-Hoff v Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund; Stringer and others v Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs Cases C-350/06 and C-520/06 ECJ, the ECJ has held that the Working Time Directive allows member states to prevent workers from taking annual leave during periods of sickness, provided that they are permitted to take it at some other time. If sickness prevents a worker from taking his or her annual leave entitlement, it must be carried over into the next leave year. Workers whose employment is terminated cannot have their payment in lieu of annual leave reduced on account of a period of sickness prior to the dismissal.
-
- Date:
- 22 November 2008
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In The Corps of Commissionaires Management Ltd v Hughes EAT/0196/08, the EAT held that the entitlement under the Working Time Regulations 1998 to a 20-minute rest break where the working day exceeds six hours is an entitlement to a single rest break and not a rest break for every six hours worked. Where an exception means that the right to a rest break does not apply, the employer must provide compensatory rest, which should be granted at a time when the worker would otherwise be working.
-
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers working time.
-
- Type:
- FAQs
-
- Type:
- FAQs
-
- Date:
- 17 July 2008
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld an employment tribunal decision that an employee who was allowed to sleep for much of his shift, but had to deal with anything untoward that might arise, was entitled to be paid the national minimum wage for the whole shift.
-
- Date:
- 14 July 2008
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Miles v Linkage Community Trust Ltd EAT/0618/07, the EAT held that an employment tribunal was entitled to make no award of compensation where an employer had breached its obligations under the working time rules in respect of daily rest breaks.
-
- Date:
- 11 January 2008
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Lyddon v Englefield Brickwork Ltd EAT/0301/07, the EAT held that, where an individual knew that his normal pay would include an element of holiday pay, subsequent identification in his payslip of the actual amount so allocated was sufficient to make it part of his contract, thus allowing the employer to offset those payments against the pay that was due to him when he actually took holiday.
-
- Type:
- FAQs
-
- Date:
- 8 August 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In McMenemy v Capita Business Services Ltd [2007] IRLR 400 CS the Court of Session held that an employer that did not award time off in lieu of bank holidays to a part-time employee who did not work on Mondays was not in breach of the part-time worker Regulations.