But you can be placed in a room/office with no windows (not the OS), a computer without internet access and nothing to do. How long can you go on like that?
The law, sadly, can't forbid asshole employers.
Was a battle of wills and eventually after 5 weeks of coming into a random branch office and sitting in an empty room, we came in one Friday to be told that the manager in charge of the building closure had been removed from the project and they would be paying full redundancy pay and we didn’t have to come back in but they’d pay for the next 3 months as well.
Fun as a 21 year old.