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- Type:
- Letters and forms
A model letter to be used in the event of an employee failing to return from holiday.
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- Date:
- 11 March 2005
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Smith v AJ Morrisroes & Sons Ltd and other appeals, the EAT holds that the guidelines set out by the EAT in Marshalls Clay require that "there must be mutual agreement for genuine payment for holidays, representing a true addition to the contractual rate of pay for time worked."
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Date:
- 23 July 2004
- Type:
- Employment law cases
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.
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- Date:
- 1 June 2004
- Type:
- Employment law cases
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.
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Date:
- 9 May 2003
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Evans v Malley Organisation Ltd t/a First Business Support the Court of Appeal holds that an employee who was paid a basic salary, plus commission which depended on contracts he won for his employer, was entitled, on termination of his employment, to accrued statutory holiday pay calculated by reference to his basic pay alone, and not his average pay including commission.
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- Date:
- 4 April 2003
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Hill v Chapell, the EAT holds that there was no "overpayment" of holiday pay or of wages in circumstances where an employee was entitled, under the Working Time Regulations 1998, to 20 days' paid holiday per annum, and had taken 15 days' paid holiday by agreement with her employer during her six months of employment.
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- Date:
- 4 April 2003
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Addison & Addison (t/a Brayton News) v Ashby, the EAT holds that a 15-year-old "paper boy" is not a "worker" for the purposes of the Working Time Regulations 1998, and so is not entitled to four weeks' paid annual leave under the Regulations.
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- Type:
- FAQs