Employers must pay workers the national minimum wage. The rates, which increase on 1 October each year, are divided into the main adult rate (workers aged 21 and over), the development rate (workers aged 18-20 inclusive) and the youth rate (workers aged 16 and 17). There is also an apprentice rate.
An additional rate for workers aged 25 and over, which is being called the “national living wage”, is being introduced from 1 April 2016.
Some employers failed to increase staff pay when 23-year-olds were brought into the scope of the national living wage, finds BEIS report.
More than 10,000 UK employers have now signed up to pay the Living Wage, the voluntary rate suggested by the Living Wage Foundation.
Transport secretary Grant Shapps calls on P&O Ferries chief executive to resign but first to return furlough cash.
Union leaders have called on ministers to assume control of P&O Ferries’ passenger and freight services in the light of multiple safety failures.
At the request of ministers the Insolvency Service has begun criminal and civil investigations into the P&O Ferries redundancies.
The Nautilus Union: ‘P&O has gotten away with it. There’s no fine, there’s no legal action, there’s only words and hot air.’
The national living wage will increase to £9.50 an hour from 1 April 2022.
The government's plan to ask UK ports to block ferries from docking if they do no pay crews the UK minimum wage would not succeed, the docks industry has stated.
P&O Ferries has refused to rehire the 800 workers it has dismissed, stating it would cause the company’s collapse.
Legislation that will force all ferry companies operating from UK ports to pay the national minimum wage will be introduced in the House of Commons this week.
Technology retailer Currys has announced a 5.2% base pay increase for hourly paid staff, in response to rising living costs.
Payroll professionals will be pleased to know there are no big suprises when it comes to this year’s payroll year...
HR professionals must ensure that their organisation is on top of the raft of employment law developments in April 2022.
Asda bosses have been strongly criticised for ‘forcing a real terms pay cut’ on its near 150,000 retail workers.
Thousands of Marks & Spencer shop floor staff will see their base pay increase to at least £10 an hour in April
