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  • Date:
    1 April 1996
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Holiday pay: Holiday pay calculation should be based on calendar day

    In Thames Water Utilities v Reynolds, the EAT holds that the Apportionment Act 1870 applied to the computation of a day's annual holiday pay to which an employee was contractually entitled on termination of his employment, and that the meaning of "a day" for these purposes is a calendar day rather than a working day.

  • Date:
    8 March 1991
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Contracts of employment: Doctors' hours under attack

    An employer's right to require overtime from an employee who is under a contractual obligation to be "on call" for a specified number of hours in excess of his basic working week, is subject to the employer's implied duty to take reasonable care not to injure its employee's health, holds the Court of Appeal in Johnstone v Bloomsbury Health Authority.

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