The EAT held that while injury to feelings cannot be awarded for breach of rest break provisions under the Working Time Regulations, compensation for personal injury caused by the breach is permitted.
We covered an earlier EAT decision on this case in 2016, where it was established that, where an employer does not permit an employee to take statutory breaks under the WTR, it can amount to a refusal to allow the employee said breaks, even where the employee does not request them:
https://www.legal-island.com/articles/uk/case-law/2016/nov/grange-v-abellio-london-ltd-2016/
In this appeal, the employer sought to overturn a decision to award the employee £750 in compensation for personal injury - he had argued that the inability to take breaks (in effect because the
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