Pay and benefits

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• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter asking employee who has been overpaid to pay money back

  A model letter asking an employee who has been overpaid to pay the money back or to agree to appropriate deductions of wages.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Is an employee who is required to work on bank holidays entitled to extra pay?

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Chris McAvoy, Sarah Wade, David Rintoul, Helen Corbett and Kristin Aarvik are associate solicitors at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  16 November 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  No remedy for part-time female workers who chose not to join pension scheme previously closed to them

  The Court of Appeal has held that there could be no remedy for part-time female workers who were prevented from joining an occupational pension scheme during particular periods because they would not have chosen to join the pension scheme even if they had been eligible to do so. 

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Chris McAvoy, Cane Pickersgill, Tessa Harland, Sarah Wade and David Rintoul are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Is the company Christmas party a taxable benefit?

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Claire Benson is managing associate and Caroline Jacobs and Chris McAvoy are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Intern paid "expenses only" entitled to be paid national minimum wage

  A company in a highly competitive creative industry that took on a worker seeking to get her foot in the door and paid her "expenses only" was found in this case to have breached national minimum wage and working time legislation.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Age discrimination against teenager dismissed at 18 to avoid national minimum wage increase

  In this case, the industrial tribunal in Northern Ireland described a small employer's decision to dismiss a young worker to avoid having to increase her pay from £4.00 to the national minimum wage rate of £4.92, when she reached the age of 18, as "callous".

• Date:

  22 September 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Offer of re-engagement does not need to include incentive previously offered to secure agreement to variation of contract

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, where an employer offers an incentive to employees to secure agreement to variation of their contracts, it is reasonable not to offer that benefit as part of an offer of re-engagement following dismissals for failure to agree.