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IN BRIEF – NOVEMBER 2011

Stress is now the most common cause of long-term sickness, according to this year’s Absence Management survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Employers planning to make redundancies in the next six months are also more likely … Continue reading

ON CALL BREAK

Under the 1998 Working Time Regulations (WTR), security workers are exempt from the right to a rest break, but are entitled to an equivalent period of “compensatory rest”. In Hughes v The Corps of Commissionaires Management Ltd, the Court of … Continue reading

TIME PLEASE

The National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (NMWR) state that salaried hours workers are entitled to be paid the minimum wage when required to be available for work or near their place of work. In Wray v JW Lees & Co … Continue reading