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A 6-point health-check for the employer

PostedMarch 13, 2024

At Ashtons we work with a large number of owner-managed businesses and SMEs. We regularly advise such businesses on a retainer basis providing cost certainty. We work closely with a...

Holiday pay – updated 2024 guidance for irregular and part year workers

PostedJanuary 23, 2024

Earlier this month, the Department for Business and Trade released new guidance on the holiday pay and entitlement reforms from 1 January 2024. The guidance goes through changes to the...

Chief Constable of Police Service of Northern Ireland v Agnew – Important update on holiday pay

PostedOctober 5, 2023

The decision has finally been given in the Agnew case – it confirms that when deciding whether a series of underpayments of holiday pay is linked, this will be determined...

The King’s Coronation – are employers required to give an extra day’s holiday?

PostedApril 28, 2023

This year there will be an additional bank holiday on 8 May 2023 to mark the coronation of His Majesty King Charles III. This may leave employers questioning whether staff...

Harpur v Brazel: Supreme Court decision on calculating holiday for part-year workers

PostedAugust 3, 2022

Last week, the Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited judgment in the case of Harpur v Brazel dealing with a key principle in relation to how to calculate holiday for...

Holiday pay – what needs to be included?

PostedJuly 1, 2022

A worker must receive a minimum of 5.6 weeks of holiday per year and be paid the equivalent of a week’s pay for a week’s leave. This is made up...

Holiday entitlement, pay and furlough – what are my employees entitled to?

PostedJuly 22, 2020

COVID-19 has caused unprecedented challenges for employers. You may have furloughed many of your staff members, but you still need to navigate holiday pay and leave entitlement. In this article,...

How do we deal with holiday for those on furlough leave?

PostedMay 27, 2020

HMRC updated their guidance for employees’ and have provided much-needed clarity on how to deal with annual leave periods whilst someone is on furlough leave. We know that holiday entitlement...

COVID-19 – employment guidance for parents and employers of parents

PostedApril 17, 2020

This is an update – our original article was posted 19 March 2020. Following the Government’s advice of 18 March 2020 that all schools in the UK will be closed...

A closer look at the Good Work Plan

PostedFebruary 14, 2020

There are a number of changes due to come into force with effect from 6 April 2020 following Theresa May’s Government’s Good Work Plan, issued in December 2018 following the...

CJEU looks at question of carry over of holiday

PostedNovember 22, 2019

The Court of Justice of the European Union has considered the question of whether annual leave must be carried over from one leave year to another if the employee was...

Holiday entitlement for term-time only workers cannot be pro-rated

PostedSeptember 10, 2019

Case update: Brazel v The Harpur [2019] EWCA Civ 1402 At the beginning of the year, we reported on the Employment Appeal Tribunal’s decision in the case of Brazel v...