In the latest case on workers' remuneration in respect of annual leave (Bear Scotland Ltd. and Others v Fulton and Others), the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled that employers should include ‘non-guaranteed’ overtime that is routinely worked when calculating an…
The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service has issued new guidance, developed in partnership with Cruse Bereavement Care and others, which aims to help employers support members of staff who have suffered bereavement. 'Managing bereavement in the workplace – a good…
A senior university lecturer whose health and career suffered after she was accused of helping a colleague to create a false and misleading job reference has had her hopes of a substantial compensation payout dashed by the Court of Appeal…
In a landmark decision which will increase the pay packets of millions of workers, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled that those who are required to work overtime are entitled to have that taken into account when calculating their…
Further to the ruling of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) that remuneration received by employees for ‘non-guaranteed’ overtime which they routinely worked as part of a ‘settled pattern’ of their employment should be included when calculating their holiday pay (see…
From 1 October 2014, an expectant father or the partner (including a same sex partner) of a pregnant woman will be entitled to take unpaid time off work to accompany the woman to up to two of her ante-natal appointments…
An entrepreneur who resigned as a director of a company he founded, in order to help it out of cash flow difficulties, nevertheless continued to be an employee and was entitled to tax relief on the profits he subsequently made…
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has published the findings of its fifteenth employee absence management survey, carried out in partnership with Simplyhealth. This provides useful benchmarking data for organisations on absence levels and the cost and causes…
In a case which revealed extreme workplace tensions within a secondary school, a teacher who claimed that he was maliciously branded unsafe to work with children after confiscating a mobile phone from a pupil in class has failed in a…
A senior NHS manager who claimed that she was bullied into a nervous breakdown by a cancer specialist with whom she had a principled disagreement over the use of public resources in private clinical studies has had her hopes of…
