Read the full judgment text of HCLA 000097/1999 on BabelCite. This HCLA judgment was delivered on 14 January 2000.
2. The background of the labour dispute is all too familiar. A restaurant worker claimed statutory holiday pay. The applicant who is the defendant employer relied on a written contract containing a scheme that purported to consolidate the employee's entitlement to rest days and statutory holidays into an agreement by the employee to have only 3 days off per month with an acknowledgement by the employee that his salary covers rest day pay. The scheme, I recall from my days at the Labour Tribunal,