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The Court of Appeal has ruled that an employee's refusal to go in to work at the beginning of the country's first national COVID-19 lockdown was "not reasonable" because he knew he could have kept his distance from colleagues.
Restricting workers' claims for unpaid holiday pay to three months after the last unlawful deduction is an unreasonable interpretation of the law, a union told the U.K. Supreme Court on Thursday in a case about how compensation should be calculated.
Compensation for unlawful deductions from holiday pay should reflect only the three months before a complaint is made — if a payout is due at all — Northern Ireland's police service argued in the U.K. Supreme Court Wednesday.
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The U.K.'s top court ruled Wednesday that a bill which would ban protesting outside abortion clinics in Northern Ireland is legally within the rights of the country to pass into law, in a case that could affect similar policies across Britain.
Britain's workers will be able to request flexible working patterns from the first day of their employment under proposed rules, the U.K. government said Monday as it committed to passing new legislation that attorneys say might have little effect on the ground.