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)....
As many as three-quarters of finance directors (FDs) have failed to review their company’s employee benefits since 2009.
Time and economic pressures were blamed for the lack of evaluation in a survey commissioned by insurance provider Unum.
Around one in five FDs...
Q We are a Payroll Bureau. A client has sent through instructions suggesting that an employee on sick leave should not receive any Statutory Sick Pay (SSP). They have provided me with a copy of the fit note and based upon the period of absence, as far as I can see, there is an entitlement to SSP...
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...
Employees are more likely to attend work while ill as a result of the downturn.
A study by Nuffield Health has shown that of those who would consider going into their workplace when sick, around half said that fears over job security would be an important factor in their decision....
More than 80 per cent of businesses are going beyond the statutory obligations for sick leave.
Research from Unum and Personnel Today has found that 67 per cent of employers will continue to financially support their employees for up to a year, even if statutory sick pay (SSP) has...
Less than a fifth of employees are aware of how much Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) they are entitled to, according to research from Aviva.
The findings revealed that a quarter of respondents believe that they would receive considerably more than the £81.60 currently available under...
Carry-over limits on untaken annual leave due to sickness have been approved by the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
Employers can take comfort from the latest ruling which suggests that caps can be placed on the amount of time that amassed holiday entitlement can be carried...
Long-term absence accounts for nearly one-third of all sickness leave.
According to figures from the CBI and Pfizer Absence and Workplace Health Survey, UK businesses lose 190 million working days every year. Around 32 per cent of this figure is attributed to long-term absence....
Workplace sickness absence is to undergo an independent review led by David Frost, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce.
As part of the drive for economic growth, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills will...
Following on from last month’s article on tax year end processes, this month we are going to take a look at checklists and clear-down procedures in readiness for the tax year ahead.
Before we start to examine finalising the tax year, you need to decide when the final payroll run will be for 2010/11 and whether or not you will need to arrange for an adjustment run to take care of any last-minute anomalies.
Quality Standard rules
HM Revenue & Customs...
Louise Elliffe discusses a ruling which rejects backdated holiday pay claims.
Holiday pay and permanent health insurance
An employment tribunal has refused a claim for seven years of backdated holiday pay where the employee had been off work and receiving permanent health insurance (PHI) payments.
The case law
The employee commenced...
Helen Rice-Birchall and Kate Sheenan outline recent tribunal rulings concerning holiday leave accrued during sickness absence.
The Working Time Directive is implemented in Great Britain by the Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR), which provide workers with the right to take 5.6 weeks’ paid holiday in each leave year.
The WTR provide that:
the first four weeks’ statutory holiday may only be...
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Working Meetings
The autumn Working Meetings concluded on 28 October with the second of the London meetings.
Payroll Alliance would like to take this opportunity to thank our guest speakers for their excellent presentations: Tom Fowler and Gordon Pope from Albany...
