- A national retailer, which required its employees to attend work before and after opening hours without pay, was ordered to pay arrears of wages of more than £193,000 for nearly 3,500 workers.
- A recruitment agency, requiring its workers to attend training at a client's business without pay, was ordered to pay £28,000 for 300 workers.
Michelle Wyer, Assistant Director of HMRC’s National Minimum Wage team, said:
“Paying the National Minimum Wage is not a choice – it’s the law. HMRC enforces the rules, protecting workers from rogue employers, ensuring they get at least the wage to which they are legally entitled.
“Where an employer ignores these rules, we will take steps to ensure arrears are paid out in full and the employer fined. In the most serious cases, criminal prosecution can follow.”
In 2012-13,17,775 people called the Pay and Work Rights Helpline, which provides advice in more than 100 languages, for information or to report an illegal wage which lead to HMRC opening 1,408 enquiries into employers.
Follow this link to read the HMRC Press Release in full.
Information about current and future NMW rates can be found at the GOV.UK website.
CIPP SURVEY – NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE 2014
9 July 2013
The CIPP Policy Team has prepared a short survey to feed in to the annual report of the Low Pay Commission on the National Minimum Wage and would very much appreciate 10 minutes of your valuable time. Thank you in advance.
Each year the Low Pay Commission is asked to prepare a report on the National Minimum Wage (NMW). This year their remit is to:
monitor, evaluate and review the levels of the different NMW rates and make recommendations on the levels (in this case for October 2014); and review the contribution the NMW could make to the employment prospects of young people. The Low Pay Commission is seeking views to help inform their report. The CIPP Policy Team has prepared a short survey based on the questions asked by the Low Pay Commission. We would be very grateful if you could spare around 10 minutes to complete survey which will help us feed into the recommendations for 2014. Thank you for your support.
The survey will close on 31 July 2013.
NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE RATES FROM 1 OCTOBER 2013
15 August 2013
The Statutory Instrument has now been made which confirms the annual National Minimum Wage rates from 1 October 2013.
The following rates will come into effect on 1 October 2013:
the adult rate will increase by 12p to £6.31 an hour;
CIPP Policy News Journal
16/04/2014, Page 245 of 519
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