Working time when sleeping?

The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld a tribunal’s decision that an on-call worker is not entitled to National Minimum Wage (NMW) for all hours of the night when a worker is on-call but only entitled to NMW for the hours a worker is awake and working.

Background Comment Reference: Shannon v Clifton House Residential Home UKEAT/0050/15/LA

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