Employment lawyers are warning that businesses could see an "immediate" significant impact from the travel to work ruling.
Employees who do not have a work base must have the travel to and from their first and last customers included as part of their working time, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.
An employment tribunal has amended the Working Time Regulations (WTR) to ensure that commission is included in holiday pay.
Unite and Unison are preparing campaigns to help employees claim back-dated holiday pay including commission.
Working mothers are not entitled to paid maternity leave if they are receiving a baby through surrogacy under European law, however individual states may go further, a court rules.
Automatically excluding female employees on maternity leave from training programmes is discriminatory, the European Court of Justice has ruled.
A European Court of Justice ruling last week could help UK pension funds reclaim millions of pounds from French tax authorities. Michael Bow explores the background
The Society of Pension Consultants has urged the European Commission to clarify whether all occupational pension schemes are exempt from its ban on gender-based annuity pricing.
Grasping the nettle of guaranteed minimum pensions
In the second part of our run-down of the most read Professional Pensions Online articles in 2011, we look at the top 20 news stories during the year - starting with those in eleventh to twentieth place.