Pay and benefits

New and updated

• Date:

  5 September 2019

  Type:

  Case studies

  How the National Trust introduced a new reward framework to help deliver its strategic goals

  The National Trust talks to XpertHR about how it revamped its reward structure to help it attract, retain and engage the employees it needs to deliver its 10-year organisational strategy.

• Date:

  8 August 2019

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Holiday pay calculation and back payments

  Consultant editor Darren Newman looks at the latest rulings in a long line of holiday pay cases, including one with significant back-pay implications for Northern Ireland employers. He also explains why the issue of lengthy back-pay periods may not yet be completely resolved for employers in the rest of the UK.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  TUPE: Obligation to keep national minimum wage records moves to transferee

  In Mears Homecare Ltd v Bradburn and others, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the duty to maintain national minimum wage records moves to the transferee on a TUPE transfer.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Holiday pay: Northern Ireland Court of Appeal refuses to limit claims for overtime non-payments

  In Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and another v Agnew, the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal refused to limit workers' historic claims for the unlawful exclusion of overtime from holiday pay calculations.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Court of Appeal rules that voluntary overtime must be included in holiday pay

  In East of England Ambulance NHS Trust v Flowers and others, the Court of Appeal held that ambulance workers are contractually entitled to have voluntary overtime included in the calculation of their holiday pay and, under the Working Time Directive (2003/88/EC), to have it included where it is sufficiently regular and settled.

• Type:

  Policies and procedures

  Overtime and time off in lieu policy

  A model policy to set out to set out the organisation's position in relation to overtime, overtime pay and time off in lieu.

• Type:

  FAQs

  How much must employers and employees contribute into their pension scheme under the pensions auto-enrolment provisions?

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Itemised pay statements and statements of fixed deductions

  Updated to reflect that the right to itemised pay statements is extended to workers and that pay statements must include additional information where pay varies according to time worked, from 6 April 2019.

• Type:

  Policies and procedures

  Expenses policy

  A model expenses policy to set out your organisation's rules for claiming expenses.

• Type:

  Quick reference

  Itemised pay statement - what must be included

  Updated to include a reference to information that must be included in payslips for staff whose pay varies with time worked, effective from 6 April 2019.