BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 20 Nov 2013
The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) has published guidance on how the national minimum wage should be calculated. Amongst the…
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 26 Oct 2012
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held in Pulse Healthcare Ltd v Carewatch Care Services Ltd that it was open to a tribunal to find that carers who had signed what purported to be zero hours contracts were ‘employed’ under global or umbrella contracts of employment.
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 6 Jan 2012
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that live-in housekeepers may be exempt from the National Minimum Wage if they live in their employer’s home and are treated as a member of their employer’s family.
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 5 Sep 2011
The Employment Appeals Tribunal has held that when an employee is required to sleep on their employer’s premises, the time spent sleeping does not count as ‘work’ for the purpose of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998.