Maxine Orr was a regular writer of articles for Legal Island before becoming an Employment Judge in 2018. Any queries on any articles written by Maxine prior to becoming an Employment Judge should be directed to Worthingtons Solicitors.
As always, it’s been a busy time for employment lawyers and HR Personnel and this is reflected in the decisions reviewed. With austerity and budgetary constraints a continuing hallmark of the economic climate, unfair dismissals and redundancies regularly feature before the Tribunals and there are a number of these decisions summarised in the review.
Maxine discusses some cases of interest, including:
* The Fulton and Others-v- Bear Scotland decision on the calculation of annual leave under the Working Time Regulations was applied by the NI Tribunal in the case of Robert Patterson –v- Castlereagh Borough Council, where it has been confirmed that “voluntary overtime”, which an employee was not contractually obliged to do, could NOT be included in the calculation
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