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Low Pay Commission: "Improve awareness of how apprentices should be paid"

Date:: 7 May 2020

The Government should improve communications around how apprentices should be paid, after it emerged that as many as one in three in some age groups are underpaid - often because of confusion around which rate they should be on.

'Emergency brake' on minimum wage rises may be needed

Date:: 3 April 2020

As the national living wage rate increases by more than 6%, the economic uncertainty posed by the coronavirus means the government could be forced to abandon its pledge to ensure the lowest-paid workers earn 60% of UK median earnings by 2024.

Budget 2020: National living wage to hit 66% median earnings by 2024

Date:: 12 March 2020

The Low Pay Commission has been tasked with ensuring that the national living wage reaches two-thirds of median earnings by 2024.

'Perverse' minimum wage enforcement replaced by 'proportionate' approach

Date:: 11 February 2020

The Government has abandoned its previously "pedantic" approach to ensuring businesses pay the national minimum wage after a review led to what it claims will be a more "proportionate" enforcement regime.

Tougher deterrents needed to end minimum wage underpayment

Date:: 8 January 2020

Sanctions for failing to pay staff the national minimum wage are not tough enough and there needs to be a greater risk of detection to incentivise organisations to remain complaint, a report has argued.

Employers cautious over steep minimum wage rises

Date:: 2 January 2020

From the start of April low-paid workers will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage that is four times the rate of inflation, in what the Prime Minister has called the "the biggest ever cash boost" to the legal pay floor.

General election halts minimum wage announcement

Date:: 30 October 2019

The timing of the general election may present real problems for employers with a 1 January pay review date.

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Low Pay Commission: "Improve awareness of how apprentices should be paid"

'Emergency brake' on minimum wage rises may be needed

Budget 2020: National living wage to hit 66% median earnings by 2024

'Perverse' minimum wage enforcement replaced by 'proportionate' approach

Tougher deterrents needed to end minimum wage underpayment

Employers cautious over steep minimum wage rises

General election halts minimum wage announcement

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Low Pay Commission: "Improve awareness of how apprentices should be paid"

'Emergency brake' on minimum wage rises may be needed

Budget 2020: National living wage to hit 66% median earnings by 2024

'Perverse' minimum wage enforcement replaced by 'proportionate' approach

Tougher deterrents needed to end minimum wage underpayment

Employers cautious over steep minimum wage rises

General election halts minimum wage announcement

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