In Brazel v Harpur Trust (UKEAT/0102/17), the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that holiday pay for a zero hours term-time only worker cannot be capped at 12.07% of annual earnings The school calculated holiday pay pro rata to the proportion of...

Discrimination compensation guidelines updated The compensation bands of awards for injury to feelings, known as the Vento bands have been updated. In respect of claims presented on or after 6 April 2018, the Vento bands shall be as follows: A lower band...

An engineer of Caribbean origin has been awarded more than £11,000 after a tribunal found he was the victim of direct racial discrimination due to comments made by colleagues mocking and imitating his accent Edwards worked as a wheelchair engineer for...

The current Childcare Voucher scheme which enables working parents to fund childcare through their pre-taxed salary with weekly vouchers worth up to £55 was due to close to new entrants in April this year An alternative government-backed tax-free childcare...

In a further development in relation to time spent ‘on call’, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has confirmed that such time is to be counted as ‘working time’ – even if the worker is not actively engaged in work at the time. This case...

The Ministry of Justice quarterly figures show that the number of claims issued in the Employment Tribunal have increased by 90% since the fee regime was abolished in July 2017 8,173 single claims were issued in the Tribunal between October and December...