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- Date:
- 27 November 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that a trainee in the second year of a learning agreement was entitled to the national minimum wage.
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- Date:
- 11 April 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In James v Redcats (Brands) Ltd [2007] IRLR 296 EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has given guidance on the definition of a worker under the national minimum wage legislation.
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- Date:
- 27 February 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Leisure Employment Services Ltd v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs [2007] IRLR 450 CA, the Court of Appeal has held that sums deducted from the pay of workers living in employer-provided accommodation to offset the cost of utility bills can not be counted as part of their wages for the purposes of establishing if they are receiving the minimum wage.
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- Date:
- 16 February 2007
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In May Gurney Ltd v Adshead and others EAT/0150/06 the Employment Appeal Tribunal holds that the remuneration of employees entitled to a perfomance bonus "does vary with the amount of work done". Accordingly the amount of a week's pay for the purpose of calculating holiday pay will be determined by taking the employees' average pay over the 12 weeks preceding their holiday.
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Date:
- 23 July 2006
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Anderson v Jarvis Hotels EATS/0062/05, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that an employee was contractually entitled to be paid for periods when he was required to sleep on the employer's premises, even though he rarely had to carry out any work during these periods.
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- Date:
- 7 April 2006
- Type:
- Employment law cases
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.
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- Type:
- Letters and forms
A model letter informing an employee of outcome of pay review.
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- Type:
- FAQs
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- Date:
- 21 March 2003
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Scottbridge Construction Ltd v Wright the Court of Session upholds the EAT's decision that a "nightwatchman" who was required to be on his employer's premises for 14 hours each night was entitled to be paid the national minimum wage in respect of all those hours, even though, while required to respond to an alarm at any time, he only had to undertake specific tasks that took around four hours a night, and was permitted to sleep if he chose to when not carrying out those tasks.