Workplace Report June 2002

Features: Law at Work

Minimum wage

The EAT has ruled that a live-in carer without any fixed hours of work but actively working around a third of the day could not claim the right to be paid at least at the statutory minimum wage in respect of all the hours when she was available and could have tended to the individual in her care.

* Walton v The Independent Living Organisation EAT/731/01