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This might upset the BIG 4 supermarkets where 85% to 90% of the workforce are on a part time hours contract and make their hours up to a reasonable level with overtime (ie 16 hours contract + 16 hours single rate overtime per week)

It isn't so much about employees making backdated claims but how holiday pay is calculated henceforward.

It could be that the supermarkets can wriggle out of paying by saying the overtime is being done on a voluntary basis ignoring the fact that the workers rely on overtime 47 weeks of the year with the other 5 weeks taken as holiday.

Many employees work for businesses who will only give them a part time hours contract and then allow them to work additional hours overtime (not incremental but paid at single rate). If I take a fortnights holiday my holiday pay is worked out on contracted hours which equates to only one weeks...