PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Social Services: Pay (20 February 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Employment Rights Act 1996 (Itemised Pay Statement) (Amendment) Order 2018, if he will take steps to ensure that social care employers provide details of all working time including (a) travel time and (b) sleep-in time on pay slips.

Asked by:
Dame Angela Eagle (Labour)

The Order requires all employers to provide details in payslips on the total number of hours paid for. This is to allow workers to identify any under recording of hours worked, and to encourage them to either raise this with their employer or make a free, confidential complaint to Acas. During a Government consultation we gathered evidence on the benefits and drawbacks of introducing further provisions requiring employers to disaggregate hours worked on payslips, and decided against making this a statutory requirement. However, many employers take this approach.

Answered by:
Andrew Griffiths (Conservative)
23 February 2018