Issue 714

Sleep-in care workers lose out

The Supreme Court has held in Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake and Shannon v Rampersad and anor that “sleep-in” care workers are only entitled to the national minimum wage for the periods they are awake during a sleep-in shift (...).

Furlough scheme one year on

A year ago, few of us had even heard of the term “furlough”. Yet it is now a recognised term of our working lives and will remain so following the Chancellor’s announcement in the budget to extend the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to the end of September 2021 (...).

Not a protected act

In order to successfully claim victimisation under the Equality Act, claimants have to show that they carried out a “protected act” based on a protected characteristic, such as sex. In Chalmers v Airpoint, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that, in the circumstances of the case, it was not enough to claim victimisation on the basis of a grievance which did not make reference to a breach of the Act (...).