Ms Annie Hoey:

It might come down to the contract as opposed to the hours. There are two issues. Perhaps it is something that needs to be teased out because I still have questions about a number of things with regard to how this would work out. It will come down to what the contract is and how it will work. We should never have a situation in which employers are tied up in knots over how things will work out because someone has to work away from home, etc.