This year has already seen the 10th anniversary of the introduction of the national minimum wage, which was introduced just over a decade ago, in April 1999. But our colleagues at CELRE - XpertHR's specialist salary surveys unit - note that today (Tuesday 20 October 2009) actually marks the 100th anniversary of a UK minimum wage.
Today is the 100th anniversary of the passage into law of the Trade Boards Act 1909, from a Bill introduced to Parliament by one Winston Churchill (then president of the Board of Trade) earlier that year, on 24 March 1909.
Analysis from the Centre for Economic Performance (PDF format, 257.7K) (external website) finds that the Nationl Minimum Wage Act 1998 "owes much to [...] the original trade boards model of 1909."
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