Payment of Wages in UK Law

  • Delaney v Staples (trading as De Montfort Recruitment)
    • House of Lords
    • 12 Marzo 1992
    ...... case raises a point of some importance on the construction of the Wages Act 1986. That Act prohibits an employer from making unauthorised ... in this case is whether "wages" for this purpose includes a payment in lieu of notice paid by an employer when terminating employment without ......
  • Mears v Safecar Security Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 05 Abril 1982
    ...... included the following term: 'the Company will continue to pay your wages during any period of absence through sickness, but subject to deduction of ... is wrong in law and so to answer the question what, if any, payment of wages is due to Mr. Mears under his contract of employment with the ......
  • Roberts v Hopwood
    • House of Lords
    • 03 Abril 1925
    ......The question is not whether I should have sanctioned these wages. I probably should not. Or whether the auditor or the Whitley Council ... same on the person making or authorising the making of the illegal payment and shall charge against any person accounting the amount of any ......
  • Johnson v Unisys Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 22 Marzo 2001
    ...... if an employee is dismissed without due notice he can claim the payment of wages he would have earned for the period of notice. From this payment ......
  • Geys v Societe Generale, London Branch
    • Supreme Court
    • 19 Diciembre 2012
    ...... to a sum contractually due to him in the form of a termination payment amounting to more than €12.5m and to damages for breach of contract. The ... is at the heart of the issue: why should the employee not sue for wages if it is the act of the employer which has prevented his performing the ......
  • Miles v Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
    • House of Lords
    • 12 Marzo 1987
    ......The employee cannot recover his contractual wages because he cannot prove that he has performed or ever intended to perform ...The plaintiff now seeks payment of the sums deducted, amounting to £774. Nicholls J. decided against the ......
  • Atherton v British Insulated and Helsby Cables Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 11 Diciembre 1925
    ...... the income and, as far as necessary, the capital of the fund in payment of the benefits provided. Two of the trustees of the fund were to be ... Watson's phrase, "trading" capital, the proper source for payment of wages and other expenses incurred in the conduct of a trader's business. See ......
  • Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
    • Supreme Court
    • 14 Diciembre 2011
    ...... if an employee is dismissed without due notice he can claim the payment of wages he would have earned for the period of notice….Beyond this, the ......
  • Browning v War Office
    • Court of Appeal
    • 20 Noviembre 1962
    ...... disability retired pay of £98.20 a month: but this again is a payment to which he is entitled by law (under Title 10 of United States Code). The ...Take wages, for instance, that his employer pays him during his incpaacity, being ......
  • Ready Mixed Concrete (South East) Ltd v Minister of Pensions and National Insurance
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 1968
    ...... Contract of service - Service of, or for services - Owner-driver - Payment on mileage basis - Provision of exclusive use of vehicle for company's ...He must pay this driver National Joint Council wages or better, and, if the company are dissatisfied with the driver, he must ......
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