It has been estimated that Welsh local authorities and health boards will received an estimated £70 million to implement a real living wage uplift. This will bring wages up to £10.90 per hour from June 2023. The uplift will benefit registered workers in care homes and domiciliary care for both children and adults. It will …
Care Workers in Wales due to Receive Real Living Wages in 2023 Read More »
The Supreme Court has allowed an appeal against last year’s Court of Appeal ruling on sleep in payments for care workers. The case argues that sleep-in shifts should count as working time and be paid at least hourly minimum wage rates. Last year, the Court of Appeal overturned the decision of a 2015 employment tribunal …
Supreme Court grants permission for appeal against Mencap / ‘sleep-ins’ decision Read More »
As most people in the sector know, HMRC has been seeking to force care homes to make back-payments to sleep-in workers; those who have been paid a flat rate for night shifts rather than the hourly National Minimum Wage. This followed two Employment Appeal Tribunal cases in 2016 (Focus Care Agency Ltd v Roberts and …
Paying sleep-in staff – HMRC’s Social Care Compliance Scheme – Care Home Professional Read More »
The last few months have seen continued developments in the vexed question of payment for ‘sleeping rights’. We expressed doubts as to whether the issue was, really, still alive. We were wrong. A decision from the Employment Appeal Tribunal (the EAT) and vacillation from Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) have left the matter quite …
‘Working or not working?’ – that is the question Read More »
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