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- Date:
- 27 June 2024
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- Survey analysis
Many organisations require workers to come in at different times, to fill different roles. Enabling organisations to operate for extended periods outside normal working hours, shift working has its own set of challenges, both for employers and for employees working such patterns.
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- Type:
- FAQs
Updated to reflect amendments to the Working Time Regulations 1998 confirming the elements of pay to be included when calculating holiday pay.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland and another v Agnew, the Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal's decision that police officers and civilian police support staff in Northern Ireland can recover holiday underpayments that stretch back as far as 1998.
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- Date:
- 11 July 2023
- Type:
- Survey analysis
We look at some of the less common benefits and allowances offered by organisations, including perks such as long-service awards, staff discount schemes and paid volunteering days.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In McKenzie-Bayliss v The Crown Prosecution Service, an employment tribunal held that a homeworking employee who relocated to North-East England but carried out work for the South-East region was no longer entitled to receive pay at the London rate.
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- Type:
- Survey analysis
What impact will remote or hybrid working have on pay rates and allowances paid based solely on office location? XpertHR's survey investigates the future of location pay.
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- Date:
- 8 August 2019
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
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.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
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.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
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.
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- Type:
- Policies and procedures
A model policy to set out to set out the organisation's position in relation to overtime, overtime pay and time off in lieu.