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In Rawlings v The Direct Garage Door Company Ltd, an employment judge held that a worker who had been on sick leave for the last 15 months of his employment was entitled to statutory holiday pay in respect of that period. The non-payment of holiday pay amounted to an unlawful deduction from wages contrary to the Employment Rights Act 1996, even though the worker had not actually taken statutory holiday during the period in question.

Opportunities to be “heard” are few and far between, and with the General Election just around the corner, White Horse Employment are promoting how the local recruitment industry plays a pivotal role in creating prosperity, enhancing opportunities and delivering the jobs of the future.

The Association of Recruitment Consultancies (“ARC”) will no longer pursue its proposed action for a judicial review of parts of the Agency Workers Regulations (“Regulations”).

TEAM are pleased to announce the winners of the First Quarter Network Competition 2010 - Wendy Cradock, Alexander James Recruitment and Susan Jones, Headliners Group.

New TEAM ASP - Reverse Delta

Calculating the National Minimum Wage where a worker always receives overtime or shift payments

A number of changes in employment law came into force on 6 April 2010.

In Taylor v XLN Telecom Limited, the Employment Appeals Tribunal decided that, in a discrimination claim, a claimant is entitled to recover for any injury to feelings and/or personal injury attributable to the discriminatory act without having to prove that the injury resulted from actual knowledge of the discrimination.

May & Baker Ltd v Okerago 2010 WL 517032 The Employment Appeals Tribunal (“EAT”) overturned an Employment Tribunal (“ET”) decision and held that an employer respondent was not liable for the acts of an agency worker discriminating against one of its employees.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT), in Bateman and others v Asda Stores Limited upheld a previous Employment Tribunal decision that Asda could legitimately introduce new pay terms without the consent of its employees by relying on a statement in its staff handbook that reserved the right to make unilateral variations to the terms of its employees’ contracts of employment.