Sleep-in care workers not entitled to national minimum wage while asleep, rules Supreme Court
Tomlinson-Blake v Royal Mencap Society; Shannon v Rampersad and another (t/a Clifton House Residential Home) [2021] UKSC 8 SC
national minimum wage | sleep-ins | care workers
In Tomlinson-Blake v Royal Mencap Society; Shannon v Rampersad and another (t/a Clifton House Residential Home), the Supreme Court dismissed both appeals and ruled that sleep-in care workers are entitled to be paid the national minimum wage only when they are awake for the purposes of working, not when they are sleeping.
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