Overtime pay

The EAT has ruled that the fact that an employee worked longer than the limits laid down in the working time directive did not give rise to a separate right to be paid overtime for those hours, in the absence of an express contractual term to pay overtime.

* Forbouys v Rich EAT/144/01

Bargaining Report provides regular round-ups of case law developments in five key areas of employment law. The five are (and the last time each was covered) - discrimination (June 2002), contracts (May 2002), dismissal (March 2002), redundancy (February 2002) and TUPE transfer rights (April 2002).

Details of cases are available at www.courtservice.gov.uk