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Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 909497, tabled on 21 March 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what representations the Government has received on the applicability of the national minimum wage and the national living wage to staff who are asleep during a sleep-in shift at work.

Answered on

27 March 2017

The Government has received representations from social care providers and charities, social care workers, and hon. Members writing on behalf of their constituents.

Answered by

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
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