Smith v Pimlico Plumbers Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 70

Working Time Regulations: What is the correct way to calculate holiday pay?

Following on from her article last month on Harpur Trust v Brazel, Joanne Moseley reviews the impact that other key cases have had on how much holiday pay workers are entitled to receive Since workers must not be discouraged from taking leave, the pay they receive while absent must generally correspond to what they would …

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Working Time Regulations: Part-year workers get holiday pay bonanza

Employers must revisit their holiday pay calculations for term-time-only workers and other staff who work for part of the year under permanent or continuous contracts, warns Joanne Moseley All workers have a fixed and universal right to 5.6 weeks’ holiday and employers can only adjust this when someone’s employment starts or ends part way through …

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Legal news: Employment update

Lesley Finlayson rounds up the latest developments affecting employers and their advisers Employers should only discuss retirement plans with employees when they have a clear and proportionate legitimate aim such as succession planning. Enquiring about retirement plans alongside grievance management was discriminatory In Tapping v Ministry of Defence [2021], a civil servant has won an …

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Holiday pay: Plumbing the depths

Stephen Ratcliffe and Richard Cook discuss what the latest twist in the calculation of variable holiday pay means for employers and their advisers Misclassified workers who have taken their Euro leave but not been paid for it can now roll over all of this leave indefinitely. Holiday pay has generated complex case law for many …

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