BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 12 Mar 2018
Workers in the hospitality and leisure sector may become more scarce as a result of Brexit so it is important to get the basics right so that your…
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 11 Feb 2018
Interns who turn up every day to work are likely to be classed as workers and should be paid the national minimum wage and paid annual leave. Many…
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 10 Nov 2017
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has today (10 November 2017) agreed with the Employment Tribunal that the Uber drivers in that case are workers and…
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom, USA | 12 May 2017
The Courts have recently considered whether workers are entitled to the National Minimum Wage whilst on-call or sleeping at work. It was decided that…
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 21 Dec 2016
Will members of the “gigging economy” ever be able to retire? Jonathan Gray, Pitmans, highlights the pensions plight of such workers There has been an…
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 25 Sep 2015
There has been significant coverage recently by national and trade press into the question of pay in the hospitality and leisure sector. Are workers…
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 3 Feb 2015
1 October 2014 saw the latest annual hike in the National Minimum Wage ("NMW"), with the rate for adult workers (21 years old +) hitting the £6.50…
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 20 Nov 2013
The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) has published guidance on how the national minimum wage should be calculated. Amongst the…
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 11 Sep 2013
The Government has announced that it will be introducing a new NMW naming scheme in October making it easier for employers who are in breach of NMW…
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 26 Oct 2012
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held in Pulse Healthcare Ltd v Carewatch Care Services Ltd that it was open to a tribunal to find that carers who had signed what purported to be zero hours contracts were ‘employed’ under global or umbrella contracts of employment.