Workplace Report (October 2000)

Features: Law at work

Car allowances

The EAT has confirmed that car allowances, including fixed sums for essential users, cannot be pursued in the tribunals under the provisions covering unlawful deductions of wages but must be taken as breach of contract claims.

(Johnson v Hampshire Probation Service EAT/1144/98)

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