Weekly issue 31

News in brief

The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform has created a handy table on their website to help work out the increased holiday entitlement to which workers are entitled from 1 October 2007.

Out on probation

Sometimes courts will imply a term into a contract to give it “business efficacy”. In the case of Przybylska v Modus Telecom Ltd (IDS 833), however, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) said that there was no need to imply a term when the express term was already sufficiently clear.

Out of time

Section 111 (2) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 says that unfair dismissal claims must be presented to a tribunal within three months of the date of termination.