Category: Spend Analysis
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Does time spent travelling to clients constitute working time?
[ad_1] The Supreme Court recently held that the time which in-home carers spend travelling between their home and their first and last clients of the day cannot be considered working time. Facts The case affected 6,000 in-home carers who provided services to approximately 185,000 clients. The carers were covered by the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)…
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Councillors decide against introducing flexible schooling policy
[ad_1] Education chiefs have decided against exploring flexi-schooling as an option for pupils going forward. The initiative would have allowed parents to limit the number of days their children spend in school and combine class-based lessons with alternative provision such as outdoor learning or home schooling. Aberdeenshire Council debates ‘flexi-schooling’ plan that would allow pupils…
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State delayed in creating lab to test for PFAS water contamination
[ad_1] Buy Photo Jessica Hart and Chad McAlvey work at Merit Labs in East Lansing. Merit does PFAS testing and is certified by multiple agencies. The labs use this Liquid Cromatography-Mass Spectrometry machine in the foreground to search for the compounds. (Dale G.Young/Detroit News) 2019. (Photo: Dale G. Young, The Detroit News) The state of Michigan…
