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Workers on call do not need to be at the workplace to be "working" (EAT)
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Workers on call do not need to be at the workplace to be "working" (EAT)
In Truslove and another v Scottish Ambulance Service UKEAT/0053/13, the Scottish EAT considered whether relief ambulance paramedics were working, and thus not taking a rest break, during on-call time for the purposes of the Working Time Regulations 1998. The employer required the paramedics when on call to stay within three miles of the ambulance station with a target response time of three minutes.
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Published on 31-Jul-2014
Resource Type Legal update: case report
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