Legally Bear: Recent Episodes
Gareth Horrocks
Exploring two cases concerning statutory exemptions which deny domestic workers the National Minimum Wage.
Puthenveettil v Alexander & George, & Others 2361118/2013
Which examines whether the “family worker exemption” is lawful.
Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson- Blake & Shannon v Rampersad and another (T/A Clifton House Residential Home) [2021] UKSC 8 https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2018-0160-judgment.pdf
Which examines whether care workers should be entitled to the NMW throughout a sleep-in shift.
For more information:
On the “family worker exemption”
https://uklabourlawblog.com/2021/03/01/a-crucial-and-long-needed-step-against-the-devaluation-of-domestic-work-family-worker-exemption-dis-applied-in-puthenveettil-v-alexander-ors-by-natalie-sedecca/
https://www.cloisters.com/domestic-workers-rights-and-the-equality-act-tribunal-finds-au-pair-exemption-unlawful-in-minimum-wage-claim-by-migrant-domestic-worker/
On the Sleep-in provision:
https://youtu.be/nVy-VMZj5Do
Does the Government’s coronavirus Self-Employment Income Support Scheme discriminate against new mothers?
R (The Motherhood Plan) v HM Treasury [2021] EWHC 309 (Admin)
The full judgment- https://pregnantthenscrewed.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Final-Judgment-Motherhood-Plan-and-Chamberlain-v-HMT-and-HMRC-.pdf
More detail on the implications of Motherhood for Automated Decision Making in Government and Discrimination cases- https://www.cloisters.com/just-because-it-is-quicker-to-use-a-machine-is-it-consistent-with-the-principle-of-non-discrimination/
A Local Authority v C & Ors [2021] EWCOP 25
Judgment is here- https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCOP/2021/25.html
For more detail see:
Kings Chambers webinar on the implications for statutory bodies and deputies- https://youtu.be/VooPC3HkL6A
Case summary from Levins Solicitors- https://www.levinslaw.co.uk/a-right-to-sex/