Paid for sleeping on the job

A hotel manager who was required to stay at the premises overnight to deal with emergencies has won his fight to be paid while sleeping on the job.

William Anderson, guest care manager at the Learmonth Hotel in Edinburgh, was awarded £1,584 compensation from his employer, Jarvis Hotels.

He won on appeal after initially losing his employment tribunal case.

The hotel argued "on-call" time, where he slept at the premises, should not be regarded as working time.

But the Employment Appeal Tribunal in Edinburgh ruled he should be paid as he was contractually obliged to be present, which meant that it was working time.

Mr Anderson was required to sleep over in the hotel several nights a week to deal with emergencies such as fire or flood.