Minimum wage protections for homeworkers
From October 2004, employers will no longer be legally able to pay homeworkers only four-fifths of the national minimum wage (NMW).
Changes announced by the Department of Trade and Industry will ensure that the UK's 700,000 homeworkers (92% of whom are women and as many as 50% are from an ethnic minority) will have to be paid at a rate that is linked to the NMW.
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