The Industrial Cases Reports
[2009] ICR 985
House of Lords
Revenue and Customs Comrs
v
Stringer
[2009] UKHL 31
[On appeal from Inland Revenue Comrs
v
Ainsworth]
2009 April 30;
June 10
June 10
Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury
Employment— Working time provisions— Paid annual leave— Employees absent from work through sickness— Whether entitled to paid annual leave during period of absence— Whether payment for annual leave recoverable as unlawful deduction from wages— Whether “wages”—
Employment Rights Act 1996 (c 18), ss 13, 23, 27(1)(a)
—
Working Time Regulations 1998 (SI 1998/1833), regs 13, 14 (as amended by Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (SI 2001/3256), reg 2), 16, 30