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- Type:
- Survey analysis
With organisations often offering upwards of 20 different benefits and allowances to their staff, we look at those beyond health-related benefits, company cars and pensions, to see what else is on offer.
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- Type:
- Survey analysis
Employers routinely offer their employees a varied range of benefits and allowances to boost salaries. We look at some of the most common benefits in use and also ask about any changes made to the offering in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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- Type:
- Survey analysis
Our analysis examines the use of shift working and how organisations manage employees who work varying hours and days.
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- Date:
- 8 August 2019
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- 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:
- Survey analysis
Away from health-related benefits, company cars and pensions, there are a host of other benefits available to employers to boost the package they offer to employees. We investigate some of the other benefits available.
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- Type:
- Survey analysis
Benefits packages have an important role to play in an organisation's recruitment and retention strategy, particularly as the labour market remains tight. Our research examines the types of benefits and allowances offered.
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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.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Willetts [2017] IRLR 870 EAT, the EAT held that payments for regularly worked voluntary overtime are part of a worker's "normal remuneration" for the purposes of calculating a week's pay in respect of a worker's holiday pay entitlement.