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National minimum wage: Sleep-in shifts – challenging times for care providers
While the Mencap decision is good news for the cash-strapped care sector, it raises a number of difficult questions about what to do next, explain Emma Burrows and Anna Scott ‘Underhill L J concluded that the essence of a sleep-in contract is that the worker, in the words of the regulations, “by arrangement sleeps” at …
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- British Nursing Association v Inland Revenue [2002] EWCA Civ 494
- Burrow Down Support Services Ltd v Rossiter [2008] UKEAT 0592_07_2506
- Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake [2017] UKEAT/0290/16; [2018] EWCA Civ 1641
- Scottbridge Construction Ltd v Wright [2002] ScotCS 285
- Walton v The Independent Living Organisation [2003] EWCA Civ 199