Glasgow Employment Law Blog

Richard Branson’s recent blog post, Why we’re letting Virgin staff take as much holiday as they want, announced the introduction of a ‘(non) policy’ for parent company employees - essentially leaving them to decide when and for how long they will take annual leave.

The Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) chose to reserve judgment in three important cases last week relating to holiday pay.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has held in a landmark case that employees are entitled to have overtime, shifts and commission included in holiday pay.  As a consequence, thousands of UK workers could be entitled to claim millions from their employers in backdated payments.