In British Airways plc v Noble and another [2006] IRLR 533 CA, the Court of Appeal has held that a reduction of 4/52 in employees' shift pay, spread evenly throughout the year, is not a breach of the Working Time Regulations 1998.
In Robinson-Steele v RD Retail Services Ltd and other cases Joined Cases C-131/04 & C-257/04 ECJ, the European Court of Justice held that it is unlawful to "roll up" holiday pay so that, in effect, workers' minimum period of paid annual leave is replaced by an allowance, paid in instalments throughout the year.
In MacCartney v Oversley House Management, the EAT the Employment Appeal Tribunal holds that an employee who was required to remain on call at or close to her place of work was 'working' even if her employer provided her with a home at her place of work.
In Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Ainsworth and others, the Court of Appeal holds that workers absent through long-term sick leave who have exhausted their entitlement to sick pay are not entitled to four weeks' holiday pay when they have done no work during the leave year.
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