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

Irwin Mitchell LLP | Employment Law Journal | October 2022 #234
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

Irwin Mitchell LLP | Employment Law Journal | September 2022 #233
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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Annual leave: Holiday pay and carry over – latest cases and the impact of the pandemic

Constantine Law | Employment Law Journal | May 2021 #220
Despite a welcome ruling in the long-running Pimlico Plumbers case, avoiding breaches of the law on annual leave remains fraught with difficulty, warn Nick Hine and Ben Payne Many furloughed or other employees have accrued a large amount of holiday which they have not been able to take or wanted to take during the pandemic. …

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Working Time Regulations: Holidays and working hours – the debate continues

Weightmans LLP | Employment Law Journal | July/August 2019 #202
Recent cases on calculating holiday pay and recording workers’ hours show that it remains tricky for employers to understand and comply with their working time obligations, reports Ben Daniel ‘The development of a cogent set of principles for the calculation of holiday pay has been a long and winding road.’ Working time, and in particular …

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