The COVID19 pandemic has resulted in domestic violence victims being unable to access support in the usual way. According to Women’s Aid 67.4% of victims who are currently experiencing abuse said that they abuse had got worse during the pandemic. Women’s Aid define domestic abuse as “an incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive,[…]
Sleep in Time is not Working Time for the Purpose of the National Minimum Wage
LATEST NEWS Apr 22, 2021
Working Time The Supreme Court has decided in the recent case of Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake that ‘sleep-in shift time work’ does not constitute working time for the purposes of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 and 2015. The case lays to rest the erroneous belief that sleep-in shifts could qualify for the[…]