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National minimum wage

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  • Date:
    16 March 2015
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    National minimum wage: deduction for repayment of training fees

    In DLA Piper's latest case report, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered that national minimum wage legislation is not breached when a deduction is made on termination for the repayment of the cost of a training course if the worker is responsible for the termination of his or her employment (typically, by resigning).

  • Date:
    10 July 2014
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    National minimum wage: higher education exception for UK workers justified

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that a "higher education course" under the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (SI 1999/584) relates to courses undertaken only in the UK and therefore disproportionately excludes foreign students and is indirectly discriminatory, but is justified as a proportionate means of preventing abuse of the national minimum wage system, which is a legitimate aim.

  • Date:
    1 July 2014
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Krishna Santra, Linda Quinn and Colin Makin are senior associates and Melissa Powys-Rodrigues and Dominic Speedie are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    1 February 2014
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Victoria Bell is managing associate and Gerri Hurst, Carly Mather and Andrew Nealey are associates and Eleanor Cittern is a trainee solicitor at Addleshaw Goddard LLP.

  • Type:
    Tasks

    Review the organisation's pay rates against the national minimum wage

  • Type:
    Quick reference

    Official sources of interactive online guidance for employers

    A table containing links to government websites providing online calculators and interactive guidance for employers.

  • Date:
    31 May 2012
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    National minimum wage: car dealership ordered to pay £35,000 over car-leasing salary-sacrifice scheme

    A large employer has been fined £5,000 by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and ordered to repay over £30,000 in wages to 40 workers who were underpaid, in a stark reminder to employers to beware of making deductions from wages for a benefit that takes pay below the national minimum wage.

  • Date:
    1 November 2011
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Chris McAvoy, Cane Pickersgill, Tessa Harland, Sarah Wade and David Rintoul are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    1 October 2011
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Claire Benson is managing associate and Caroline Jacobs and Chris McAvoy are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    29 September 2011
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Intern paid "expenses only" entitled to be paid national minimum wage

    A company in a highly competitive creative industry that took on a worker seeking to get her foot in the door and paid her "expenses only" was found in this case to have breached national minimum wage and working time legislation.

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HR and legal information and guidance relating to the national minimum wage.