City employers are being urged to prepare for the Olympics, following findings that show a third have no contingency plan in place.
Research from the MWB Business Exchange highlighted that only one in 10 organisations are planning to allow staff to work from home during the...
Clearer guidance over accruing holiday leave during a period of sickness has been given by the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
In a recent judgment, the minimum allowance to be carried forward was confirmed as four weeks, as specified by the Working Time Directive (WTD)....
Annual leave allowance and pensions are the two most important benefits that employees consider when applying for a job.
The research from MetLife showed that these provisions each ranked top for 33 per cent of respondents. However, this varied demographically.
A total of 40...
Nearly two-thirds of employers are yet to inform staff about their leave policy during this summer’s Olympic Games.
Research from Badenoch & Clark showed that 60 per cent of firms have not told workers who wish to attend events what the leave arrangements are....
Employers are being encouraged to pay workers for an extra day of leave over the June bank holiday weekend.
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is worried that penny-pinching bosses will expect employees to work as normal during the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, which run...
A quarter of UK employees are failing to take their full annual leave entitlement, research has found.
Implications for employers was cited as the reason for not using all their time off by 20 per cent of the 2,000 surveyed. Almost half were worried about coordinating dates with other...
The Government is attempting to minimise the impact of the Working Time Regulations (WTR) changes on British businesses.
Negotiations are taking place with the European Union to prevent damaging amendments to the directive which could cost employers more than £100...
Q An employee started a two-week period of paid annual leave. The first day they were away they fell and broke their leg and had to be repatriated back home. They have now just returned to work after four weeks and are asking to be paid Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) for the time they were away from...
UK workers have one of the most generous statutory holiday provisions in the world, according to research from Mercer.
The findings show that Western European countries provide the highest amount of compulsory leave, compared to the Asia Pacific area.
However, despite...
The Supreme Court has backed employers by dismissing an employee’s claim over when he could take his holiday.
In Russell v Transocean a number of offshore oil and gas workers were contracted to work a pattern of two weeks offshore and then two weeks onshore. They argued that...
Only 53 per cent of UK workers utilised their entire holiday entitlement last year.
A little under a quarter of employees took 75 per cent of their leave, while more than a tenth did not take any. Despite this, UK staff enjoyed more time off than their global counterparts.
The findings...
Louise Donaldson discusses a recent EAT decision which considers what employers should do with regards to the accrued holiday of those who are on long-term sick leave.
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that an employee absent on sick leave for the whole of a holiday year is entitled to statutory holiday under the Working Time Regulations (WTR). The fact that she did not request to take the holiday did not affect her right, and since she was entitled...
NHS staff have been asked to sacrifice part of their annual leave or work unpaid to help plug a deficit of
£4.5 million.
Whipps Cross University Hospital in east London has written to employees urging them to work for free as a “one off” request, although it...
British Airways pilots have won a court battle over how their holiday pay is calculated.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that the remuneration they were given during annual leave should also include a supplementary payment. This extra amount is for flying time, which is...
It is reaching that time of year when your employees want to use up their annual leave before the UK sunshine and August bank holiday disappears. The summer holiday period will be over before you know it, and everyone will want to take the same time off.
Have a clear annual leave...
