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Key changes to the National Minimum Wage

By Claire Maclean
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Sleep-in workers: The National Minimum Wage applies only when awake for the purpose of working

When are sleep-in workers "working" for the purposes of calculating the National Minimum Wage (NMW)? Only when they are awake for the purpose of working.

By Victoria Middleditch
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National Minimum Wage increases announced for April 2021

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.

By Laura Anthony
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National minimum wage: deductions for training and accommodation expenses

By Victoria Middleditch
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Changes to the national minimum wage rules to reflect modern pay arrangements – though naming and shaming returns

By Jessica Tancock
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Government announces statutory pay rate increases for 2020/21

By Lisa Watson
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Low Pay Commission – minimum wage underpayment on the rise

A new report from the Low Pay Commission has found that the underpayment of workers on statutory minimum wage increased […]

By Tom Fancett
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High Court finds that directors can be liable for breach of employment contract

Most directors of companies don’t expect to be held personally liable for inducing the employer to breach an employee’s contract […]

By Aggie Salt
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Statutory employment changes from April 2019

As April fast approaches, employers should make sure they are ready to implement the increases to statutory pay, as well […]

By Victoria Albon
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National minimum wage: BEIS launches consultation on salaried hours work and salary sacrifice schemes

In the week before Christmas, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) launched a consultation on the National […]

By Elizabeth Marshall
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Taylor Review – update

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:

By Verity Buckingham
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Employers "named and shamed" for failure to pay the National Minimum Wage

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.

By Elizabeth Marshall

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