We look at how shift and night working operates in the police sector and some of the initiatives aimed at reducing the potential negative impact of such working patterns.
In Kocur v Angard Staffing Solutions Ltd and another, the Court of Appeal held that agency workers' entitlement to the "same basic working and employment conditions" as permanent staff after 12 weeks does not extend to being given the same number of hours' work.
A model agreement to set out the terms that will apply where an employee moves abroad temporarily to work for another organisation within the same group of companies (sometimes known as an "inter-group transfer") in circumstances in which the employee is still employed by the UK organisation during the assignment.