Whether or not voluntary overtime should be included in holiday pay calculations has been a popular topic of discussion recently. It has been argued that organisations who do not pay their employees for exerting voluntary overtime should rethink their calculations, since we are increasingly finding ourselves experiencing more expensive...
Image Credit: Flickr Commons, Anchor Editions "Centerville, California. A friend comes to bid a farmer of Japanese ancestry goodbye while awaiting ." . . May 1942 This depends why they didn't work their notice. Did you agree to waive the notice requirement? In the absence of any agreement,...
Image Credit: Flickr Commons - Bessie Hayward – Vintage Car Circa Mid 1930's We know we are at risk of becoming boring now, we’ve talked about this a lot lately, but the issue of holiday pay and overtime is still cropping up regularly with our clients...
Image Credit: Flickr Commons, Seattle Municipal Archives, Sails & Trails Club circa 1932 After a brief spell of freezing weather last week, it reminds us that there are few wise steps to take to ensure your business runs as smoothly as possible over days like these...
Image Credit: Flickr Commons: Stuart Axe, Screenshot of Norman Wisdom 'A Stitch in Time' (1963) Sick pay is a notoriously tricky one to get right. Schemes in the public sector have had some generous offerings, such as 6 months full pay and 6 months half pay...
Image credit: Women working in the Pinion Department at Bulova Watch, 1937 by Richie, Robert Yarnall (1908-1984) Equal Pay day has been and gone and it now means that any women working in the UK are effectively working for free for the rest of the year....
Whether or not the employer must pay an employee for the notice period if he or she does not work it depends on the reason for him or her not working it. In the absence of any agreement to waive the notice requirement, an employee who...