Jason Elliott was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 2013 and is the Associate Head of School of Law at Ulster University. As a practising barrister, he has developed a largely civil practice representing individuals, companies and public bodies in litigation. This covers a wide range of areas including personal injuries, wills and employment law. In terms of employment law, he has represented both applicants and respondents in the Industrial Tribunal. At Ulster University, Jason lectures extensively on the civil areas of practise such as Equity and Trusts and delivers employment law lectures for both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
An argument that the respondent failed in operating a policy relating to core shifts and overtime shifts could not proceed as that argument was not raised at the Employment Tribunal.
The claimant worked for the respondent as an Emergency Ambulance Crew from January 2017. In December 2019, the claimant’s hours were reduced to the equivalent of 18.75 hours per week on a self-rostering basis and subject to an annualised hours arrangement. The primary issue in the appeal was in relation to ‘disruption payments’. The issue for the Tribunal, at first instance, was whether a disruption payment referred to in a bulletin of November 2021 applied to core shifts that are not worked as overtime.
Initially, the claimant wanted
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