Employee Benefits 6th January 2021 6:00 am 5th January 2021 3:15 pm As we work our way into 2021, there are cases which will have a big impact on employment law, and HR policies and practices over the next 12 months. Holiday pay: are the ‘rules’ which limit a series of deductions correct? In 2019, the Nothern Ireland (NI) Court of Appeal in Chief Constable of the Police Service of NI and others v Agnew held that the analysis of what amounts to a series of unlawful deductions in the case of Fulton v Bear Scotland was incorrect and had resulted in arbitrary and unfair results. It stated that a series is not broken by lawful payments, or by a gap in payments of three months or more. It also stated that annual leave is not taken in a particular sequence and the different types of leave (directive, working time regulation and additional contractual holiday) are indistinguishable from each other.