
The 'Chocolate Snowman Appeal' is an amazing initiative that Anthony Collins Solicitors' (ACS) employees take part in every year.
We are helping many providers try and argue that their staff are working unmeasured time and therefore that their arrangements on paying a flat fee for the shift are compliant with Minimum Wage legislation. However, there are difficulties in structuring their arrangements in the best way to rely on that argument and no guarantee that a Court or Tribunal will accept that the shift is not time work.
Hot on the heels of those cases came the realisation that some providers haven’t properly been implementing the complex regulations governing the calculation of holiday pay, by failing to account for shift premiums in holiday pay calculations and even more concerning a line of cases suggesting that overtime payments may also need to be included in the calculation of holiday pay.
At the same time as wrestling with these potentially significant liabilities Commissioners are knocking at your door and asking you to deliver the same service at significantly reduced costs and staff are telling you they can’t go another year without a pay rise. This could be enough to send some providers over the edge and it is clear there will be some hard decisions to make.
Here are some thoughts as to what you could be doing:
There is not going to be a one size fits all solution to meet the challenges ahead. Providers are going to need to review their costs across their organisation and it will be those providers that are flexible and are able to strategically plan and implement a wide program of change in practices across their organisations that will thrive.
Contact Matthew Wort on 0121 214 3501 or matthew.wort@anthonycollins.com.
The 'Chocolate Snowman Appeal' is an amazing initiative that Anthony Collins Solicitors' (ACS) employees take part in every year.
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