Decisions means workers can only receive minimum wage when required to be awake for work
Care workers who have to sleep at their workplace in case they are needed overnight are not entitled to the minimum wage for their whole shift, the supreme court has ruled.
Claire Tomlinson-Blake, a Mencap support worker in the East Riding of Yorkshire, had appealed against a court of appeal ruling that carers are only entitled to the minimum wage when they are required to be awake for work – and not while asleep.
