Workplace Report (July 2002)

Features: Law at work

Holiday rights

Employers cannot deduct money from workers' pay on termination to take account of the fact that they had taken more statutory annual leave than they had actually accrued. An employer who does this is making an unlawful deduction from pay, in breach of Part 2 of the Employment Rights Act 1996.

* Hill v Chapell EAT/1250/01


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