Holidays, Holiday Pay & Rest Breaks - All the Latest News

Introduction

Holidays, and holiday pay, have been in the news again, so we will start off this virtual classroom seminar by looking at this issue following rulings in cases such as Chief Constable of Northern Ireland Police v Agnew and Harpur Trust v Brazel.

We will then move on to look at the amendments made to the Working Time Regulations 1998 on 1 January 2024 and what impact they have on the way that we calculate annual pay and entitlement.

What do we need to pay employees when they take annual leave? What happens if an employee does not take all their leave? Can we cancel an employee’s annual leave? We will answer these, and many more, questions about annual leave.

Expert speaker Professor Kathy Daniels will then look more widely at the protection given to employees by the Working Time Regulations 1998, the reasons behind the Regulations as well as the impact of the law through a mix of practical scenarios and recent case law.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive session will cover the following:

• Annual leave
• What must we pay when someone takes annual leave? What do we do if the employee works irregular hours or receives variable pay?
• What happens if an employee does not take their leave? How long can leave be carried forward, and in what circumstances?
• Some tricky questions relating to annual leave
• Rest breaks
  • What rests is an individual entitled to take?
  • What is the employer’s responsibility? Must breaks be ‘policed’?
  • What happens if an employee does not take their rest?
• Work and the working week
• What is work?
• What are the requirements on keeping records of hours worked?
• How can the opt out from the maximum hours for the working week be applied?
• Night work
• What is night work, and what is a night worker?
• What protection does a night worker receive?

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.