Managing long-term sick: The position after Kigass and the entitlement to holiday pay

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• Pinsent Masons Employment Group

The recent decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal in the case of Kigass Aero Components Limited -v- Brown has held that employees who have been off work due to long-term illness are nevertheless entitled to be paid up to four weeks statutory holiday under the Working Time Regulations 1998. However, the case leaves the management of employees on long-term sick far from certain.

In this decision, the EAT confirmed that those employees on long-term sick leave continue to accrue the right t... (510 more words)

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