“Working time is a notoriously complex area, where the interplay between opaque judgments from the CJEU and the complexities of the Working Time Regulations 1998 is capable of causing uncertainty and confusion. Over the last 12 months, the most important working time cases have been on holidays. Some of those cases are likely to have significant financial impact for employers across the piece. This paper 1 attempts to navigate through them in a summary way, dealing with the three areas that are likely to be most important for employers and employees:
(i) What should ‘pay’ be for annual leave?
(ii) When can an employer insist that leave is taken?
(iii) What is the interplay between sickness absence and holiday pay/entitlement?”
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11 KBW, 1st June 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
