Supreme Court rules that Sleep-In shifts are not working time for the purposes of the National Minimum Wage Regulations
In the judgement of Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson Blake, the Supreme Court finally decided the issue of whether workers should be paid National Minimum Wage when on ‘sleep-in’ shifts. This long-running saga commenced in 2017 when in this and a number of conjoined cases the EAT decided that such time could, in certain circumstances, be considered to be ‘time work’ for the purposes of the NMW Regulations, such that the whole of the shift, and not just any time