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Employment Law

Sleeping on the job: Clarification on sleep-in payments

In what has been an eagerly anticipated case for both care workers and care providers the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has confirmed it’s decision in the case of Focus Care Agency Limited v Roberts [2017] UKEAT/0143/16/DM. Regular readers of the Taylor & Emmet LLP Employment Team blogs will know that the recent reaction to the topic of Read more…

By Taylor Emmet, 9 years ago

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Paid to sleep: Should workers be paid to sleep?

This is essentially the principle that came out of the case of Whittlestone v BJP Home Support Limited. The Case In this case, Mrs Whittlestone was employed as a care worker. She was paid £6.35 per hour for all time that she spent providing care to a service user. She Read more…

By Taylor Emmet, 10 years ago