BORIS JOHNSON must introduce immediate reforms to minimum wage laws affecting thousands of care workers, trade unionists and charity campaigners have demanded.
In today’s open letter to the PM, Unison and learning disability charity Mencap say “action is needed urgently” to amend current rules so that sleep-in shifts, where staff have to stay overnight away from home, are defined as working time and paid properly.
Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that the hours employees are asleep do not have to be paid at minimum wage rates, with only the time they are awake and looking after people to be included.
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