National Minimum Wage
Government announces statutory pay rate increases for 2020/21
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 […]
High Court finds that directors can be liable for breach of employment contract
Statutory employment changes from April 2019
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 […]
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:
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.
National Minimum Wage Increase
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.
Its all change in employment law in April…
April is a key month for employment law changes and this April is no different. 6 April is “D-Day” for […]
National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage set to increase in April
Following our post on 1 December 2016, “National Living Wage to increase by 4 per cent in April“, the draft […]
The case for and against: should we get rid of unpaid internships?
In our article published this week on HRZone, we consider whether or not the UK should ban unpaid internships. This […]