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The UK government has accepted the full recommendations made by the Low Pay Commission at the end of October this year. The recommended increases in the National Living Wage (NLW) and National Minimum Wage (NMW) rates will come into force from April 2021.
A new report from the Low Pay Commission has found that the underpayment of workers on statutory minimum wage increased […]
Most directors of companies don’t expect to be held personally liable for inducing the employer to breach an employee’s contract […]
As April fast approaches, employers should make sure they are ready to implement the increases to statutory pay, as well […]
In the week before Christmas, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) launched a consultation on the National […]
The House of Commons Work and Pensions and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committees (the Committees) made recommendations in November 2017 for addressing the issues raised in the Taylor Review. These included:
On 9 March 2018 the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy named and shamed 179 employers for paying their staff below the National Minimum Wage (NMW). Restaurant chain Wagamama topped the list, but claimed that a misunderstanding as to how the NMW Regulations apply to staff uniforms was to blame.
Workers aged over 25 will receive an inflation-busting increase of 33p an hour in their national minimum wage. An above-inflation pay rise of 4.4 per cent starting April 2018 is over the 3 per cent rate of inflation which is in place at the moment. Following this, full-time workers will receive a £600 annual increase.
April is a key month for employment law changes and this April is no different. 6 April is “D-Day” for […]
