The Independent Living Group Podcast

Reflections On The Sleep In Judgement

1 April 2021  |  Season 1  |  33 mins 49 secs

carers, direct payments, independent living, individual employers, pa, sleep in shifts

As a result of the judgement handed down by the Supreme Court in the Mencap v Tomlinson-Blake sleep-in case we now know for certain that a person is not doing time work for the purposes of National Minimum Wage (NMW) unless they are awake for the purposes of working.