Remuneration: Calculating a week‘s pay

Rebecca McGuirk and Anna Scott discuss the potentially costly impact for employers of a series of decisions on how to calculate unfair dismissal compensation and holiday pay ‘The issue of what to include when calculating holiday pay has recently been exercising the courts. It is therefore important that employers check they are including the right …
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Litigation: Five reasons why your employment tribunal spend might increase next year

A cluster of recent cases and developments is likely to mean rising costs for employers faced with a tribunal claim, warn Phil Allen and Louise Singh ‘Employers are starting to see a renewed flow of the types of claim that had largely fallen away under the fee regime.’ After a few years in the wilderness, …
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Legal News: Employment update

Mark Kaye rounds up recent case law and developments affecting employers and their advisers ‘Egon is a useful reminder of the need to draft restrictive covenants carefully so as not to fall foul of the restraint-of-trade doctrine.’ Calculation of a week’s pay should include employer pension contributions The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held, in …
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