News from IDS Brief – Token sum on termination for untaken holiday was not permissible In Podlasiak v Edinburgh Woollen Mill Limited an employment tribunal has held that the ECJ’s[…]
Zero Hours Employee Entitled to more than Token Sum to Compensate for Accrued but Untaken Holiday
LATEST NEWS Oct 03, 2013
The Business Secretary Vince Cable has announced that the Government will launch a consultation on tackling abuse of zero-hour contracts, and will ask the Low Pay Commission (LPC) to consider[…]
The government has produced guidance on employee shareholder status, which came into force yesterday (1st September 2013). https://www.gov.uk/employee-shareholders An interesting point is that the government states: “If an employee shareholder[…]
The Government has now published a number of statutory instruments that make various changes to employment law, some of which were previously only available in draft form. A revised version[…]
The Court of Appeal in Shumba & others v Park Cakes Ltd confirmed that enhanced redundancy payments may become contractually binding through custom and practice. The Claimants, who had been[…]
Since the Coalition Government came to power in 2010, it has undertaken an intensive programme of employment law reform as part of its Parliament-long Employment Law Review and the employment-related[…]
In Neal v Freightliner Ltd an employment tribunal has held that a freight worker was entitled to have overtime payments and shift premia counted towards his holiday pay. The payments[…]
The Government has outlined a further raft of measures as part of its Parliament-long Review of Employment Law and the Red Tape Challenge. It has begun a call for evidence[…]
The Government has published a consultation on proposals to strengthen and simplify the current civil penalty scheme, which is aimed at preventing illegal migrant working. Since 1997 employers have had[…]
Duty to consult over collective redundancies applies irrespective of where workers are based.
LATEST NEWS Jul 03, 2013
In Usdaw v Ethel Austin Ltd (in administration) and another case the EAT has held that the words ‘at one establishment’ in S.188 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations[…]