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.
Thirteen room attendants working at a five-star London hotel have won back pay and damages after it emerged they were...
An optician who paid his staff at rates up to 40% less than they were entitled to has become the...
The remit of the Low Pay Commission (LPC) has been extended to take into account the impact the national minimum...
A number of charities are flouting the law by not paying the national minimum wage (NMW) when staff ‘sleep over’,...
Employment experts have clashed over whether the rise in the national minimum wage (NMW) will put firms off creating jobs.The...
The government decision to increase the national minimum wage by 2.2% (from £5.80 to £5.93) in October this year, has...
Employers are exploiting thousands of young interns by getting them to work for free, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has...
Proposals to freeze the national minimum wage (NMW) for younger workers could disengage a generation already badly hit by the...
The government has created a team to crack down on employers who continually refuse to pay their workers the National...
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has launched a manifesto for recovery, calling for a national minimum wage...
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The TUC is pushing for the national minimum wage (NMW) to be raised by 20p to £6 per hour ahead...
One in three unemployed young people have been out of work for more than six months, prompting fears they could...
The CBI has criticised the government’s pledge to continue raising the national minimum wage saying it will undermine the role...
The latest round of employment law changes come into effect on 1 October. Their implications for the workplace should not...
