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Minimum wage

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.


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    by Ashleigh Webber 5 Oct 2018

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    by Ashleigh Webber 1 Oct 2018

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    by Adam McCulloch 28 Sep 2018

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    Record number of workers on national minimum wage being underpaid

    by Ashleigh Webber 24 Sep 2018
    by Ashleigh Webber 24 Sep 2018

    HM Revenue and Customs identified a record £15.6m in national minimum wage underpayment in 2017/18.
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    Low-income families’ earnings do not cover basic needs

    by Ashleigh Webber 20 Aug 2018
    by Ashleigh Webber 20 Aug 2018

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    Sleepover exemption: At which point do sleep-in shifts stop counting as work?

    by Darren Newman 25 Jul 2018
    by Darren Newman 25 Jul 2018

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    Minimum wage underpayment allegations more than doubled last year

    by Ashleigh Webber 16 Jul 2018
    by Ashleigh Webber 16 Jul 2018

    HMRC received more than 6,000 whistleblower reports about alleged underpayment of the national minimum wage last year – more than...

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    Care workers not entitled to minimum wage when sleeping

    by Ashleigh Webber 13 Jul 2018
    by Ashleigh Webber 13 Jul 2018

    Care workers who sleep overnight at a client’s home are not entitled to the national minimum wage while they are...

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    Card Factory among minimum wage underpayment employers

    by Ashleigh Webber 6 Jul 2018
    by Ashleigh Webber 6 Jul 2018

    Card Factory, Odeon & UCI Cinema Group and Wyevale Garden Centres have been named among 239 employers found to have...

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    MP to challenge ‘ageist’ national living wage in Commons

    by Ashleigh Webber 5 Jul 2018
    by Ashleigh Webber 5 Jul 2018

    A Labour MP is urging the government to end the exclusion of under 25s from the national living wage after...

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    Deliveroo riders win six-figure settlement over pay and rights

    by Ashleigh Webber 29 Jun 2018
    by Ashleigh Webber 29 Jun 2018

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    National living wage rises will hit head office, not shop floor

    by Jo Faragher 27 Jun 2018
    by Jo Faragher 27 Jun 2018

    Rises in the national living wage will cause job losses at retail head offices, rather than in customer-facing roles, a...

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    Hermes drivers ruled as workers, not self-employed

    by Jo Faragher 25 Jun 2018
    by Jo Faragher 25 Jun 2018

    An employment tribunal has ruled that a group of Hermes couriers are workers, rather than self-employed.

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    Pay awards fail to rise above inflation

    by Jo Faragher 21 Jun 2018
    by Jo Faragher 21 Jun 2018

    The median pay rise awarded by employers was 2.5% over the past three months – a level that has remained...

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    Amazon delivery firms in employment status fight

    by Adam McCulloch 4 Jun 2018
    by Adam McCulloch 4 Jun 2018

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