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Working Time and Contractual Holiday - the cases and the law in a nutshell

Issues of carry-over of holiday and the calculation of holiday pay cause headaches every day for employers, employees and advisors. This article, updated following the latest cases, provides a straight forward summary of the up to date law on holiday entitlements. It examines the issues around carry over, including cases involving long term sickness and family leave and also how holiday pay is calculated

Emplaw Monthly - End of May2018

Click here for the May 2018 edition of Emplaw Monthly which includes Equality updates from EHRC, The GEO and Acas, the latest on moves to reduce worker exploitation, Whistleblowing updates plus of course the latest on GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, as well as links to our latest articles including Where Maternity Pay is enhanced and Shared Parental Pay isn’t – what are the risks of discrimination? and Avoid the pension traps in employee settlement agreements.

For Emplaw Online subscribers, there are also professional summaries of the latest key cases and links to full reports

Where Maternity Pay is enhanced and Shared Parental Pay isn’t – what are the risks of discrimination?

Click here for a short article from Emplaw Online considering the latest cases on whether paying ShPP at statutory rates and Maternity Pay at enhanced rates, amounts to direct or indirect discrimination and what this means for employers.

It also links to a blog from Rachel Cransnow QC giving more insight into the most recent case of Hextall v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police. Rachel is a barrister at Cloisters, a set which provides expert content for Emplaw Online in topics including TUPE, Unfair Dismissal and ET and EAT procedure