National minimum wage: Sleep-in shifts – challenging times for care providers

Trowers & Hamlins LLP | Employment Law Journal | September 2018 #193
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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National Minimum Wage: Pay for sleep-in and on-call work

Russell-Cooke LLP | Employment Law Journal | June 2017 #181
A recent EAT decision on night shift pay is threatening the overstretched care sector’s ability to provide services, warns Carla Whalen ‘The consequences of failing to comply with the national minimum wage legislation can be extremely harmful to organisations.’Calculating the national minimum wage (NMW) has long been a source of worry for employers, with particularly …

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