{"id":9424,"date":"2016-08-02T17:09:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T16:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=9424"},"modified":"2016-08-02T17:09:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T16:09:22","slug":"holiday-pay-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=9424","title":{"rendered":"Holiday pay win"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A five-year legal battle to get haulier Eddie Stobart Ltd (ESL) to pay the correct rate of holiday pay has resulted in a pay-out of \u00c2\u0141364,000 for more than 430 drivers.<\/p>\n

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Unite, which represented 370 of its drivers, hailed this as \u00e2\u20ac\u0098a victory for the benefits of union membership\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, as only union drivers benefited from the successful legal action.<\/p>\n

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The Unite drivers, who are mainly based in the north of England, will start receiving their payments this week, ranging between \u00c2\u0141700 and \u00c2\u01411,000 each.<\/p>\n

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The kernel of the dispute was that holiday pay should reflect \u00e2\u20ac\u0098average pay\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. ESL was paying basic pay, plus a daily supplement, for the 20 days holiday under the working time directive. But Unite argued that the drivers had allowances and overtime that would have contributed towards a higher rate of \u00e2\u20ac\u0098average\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 holiday pay.<\/p>\n

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The legal process started in 2011 and was settled before it reached court. It also involved 69 members of the United Road Transport Union (URTU) who will share in the \u00c2\u0141364,000 pay-out.<\/p>\n

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As of this month, all ESL drivers will be getting the higher rate of holiday pay for the 28 days leave each year, which also includes statutory bank holidays.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe are pleased that this five-year old dispute has been settled, although we would have preferred that Eddie Stobart\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s had agreed voluntarily to the higher rate of holiday pay rather than going through protracted legal wrangling,” said Unite national officer for road transport Adrian Jones.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is a triumph for the benefits of union membership as we could only pursue claims on behalf of those members who agreed to the legal claim. Those, who were not union members, won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t benefit from the one-off payment of up to a \u00c2\u01411,000,” he added.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bHowever, going forward, all drivers working for ESL, will benefit from the higher rates of holiday pay for the 28 days leave a year.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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The Unite drivers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 total pay-out was \u00c2\u0141306,700 and URTU\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s came to \u00c2\u014157,300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A five-year legal battle to get haulier Eddie Stobart Ltd (ESL) to pay the correct rate of holiday pay has resulted in a pay-out of \u00c2\u0141364,000 for more than 430 drivers.   Unite, which represented 370 of its drivers, hailed this as \u00e2\u20ac\u0098a victory for the benefits of union membership\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, as only union drivers benefited […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[529,495],"wps_subtitle":"Triumph for benefits of union membership","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9425,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424\/revisions\/9425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}