Government bows to care provider pressure over sleep-in payments

The government has responded to warnings by care providers that HMRC enforcement action risked bankrupting the sector, by waiving fines related to backdated pay owed to workers for sleep-in shifts. In what it described as “exceptional measures to minimise disruption”, the government also said it would temporarily suspend, until 2 October, all enforcement activity relating to pay for … Continue reading Government bows to care provider pressure over sleep-in payments