Welcome to our latest Coffee Break in which we look at legal and practical developments impacting employers

Government publishes consultation on holiday entitlement for irregular hours, agency and part-year workers

Holiday entitlement remains a complicated area for irregular hours, agency and part-year workers. Last year's Supreme Court decision in Harpur Trust v Brazel left employers engaging on this basis potentially having to pay more holiday pay for "part-year" and "irregular hours" workers than for normal employees working the same aggregate number hours – and some now face the possibility of retrospective liability even where they followed Acas guidance. The government has published a consultation on proposed changes to the statutory regime for calculating holiday entitlement for part-year and irregular hours workers to ensure it "is proportionate to the time they spend working". If implemented, this would effectively reverse the effects of Brazel.

Read the latest Insight from our employment and workforce solutions teams on what this means.

Employment law challenges in 2023: Practical considerations for HR

Last week we looked at the challenges we are seeing for employers in 2023 and our first webinar this year will provide a practical run through of these, looking at the latest significant case law and government proposals affecting day-to-day employment practices and what steps you should take to manage legal risk. Key topics we will cover include redundancies and...

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