Voluntary overtime and holiday pay calculations
Regular voluntary overtime should be included in holiday pay calculations. In the case ‘East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust v Flowers EWCA’, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision that for the purposes of calculating holiday pay, under the Working Time Directive (WTD), voluntary overtime pay should have been taken into account. The Working […]
Wagamama and TGI Fridays – Fined over National Minimum Wage
It was indeed a good Friday if you were one of the employees sharing in the £1.3m fine issued by the government. This was the cumulative amount 179 employers have been instructed to pay in respect of breaching the minimum wage. Many had adhered to the bandings but fell foul over illegal deductions for things […]