You can read HMRC’s full statement here - Enforcement of the National Minimum Wage in the social care sector
HMRC has updated section 3.7 of the National minimum wage law: enforcement policy paper specifying additional circumstances concerning sleeping time, in which a notice of underpayment will not impose a penalty.
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Your experience with NMW and NLW – CIPP and Low Pay Commission Roundtable 17 August 2017
The CIPP Policy team will be holding a CIPP Think Tank member roundtable on the 24 August 2017 in Nottingham. The meeting will run from 11am until 1pm (registration from 10.45) and be hosted by MHR.
Representatives from the Low Pay Commission (LPC) will be in attendance to receive directly your views and experiences.
The LPC are now analysing the results of the consultation carried out earlier this year, however they would still be very grateful to hear about your experience of the National Living Wage and the effects it is having on businesses. Their primary concern is employment, and whether the NLW has led to redundancies, slowed recruitment, or reduced hours. In addition, they very much want to hear more about some more specific issues that payroll professionals might be well placed to answer. There has been a lot of commentary about reductions in pay differentials between grades and changes to staff benefits in response to the NLW. Shifts in contract types, for example a move to using more zero hour contracts, are something they have also heard much about.
Hearing your views about compliance with the minimum wage, and what role payroll systems can play in preventing non-compliance is also a critical part of their work this year.
Please contact Samantha Mann CIPP senior policy and research officer at policy@cipp.org.uk for full details of this important event.
Attendance will be granted on a first come, first served basis.
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Minimum wage compliance - BEIS publishes latest name and shame list 17 August 2017
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) have published the latest name and shame list of employers found to be non-compliant in paying the Minimum wage.
Minimum wage compliance includes payment of the National Minimum Wage and since April 2016 the National Living Wage. Policy owners BEIS have the power to publically name and shame employers who have been found by HMRC NMW compliance teams to be non-compliant. The reasons for failing to pay the minimum wage are many and varied. The name and shame list names the employer, the amount underpaid and the number of employees affected. Much can be learned from the experiences of these employers but the list does not extend to including case studies to explain what went wrong for these employers and employees.
The latest list includes the names of 233 employers – less than the February record of 359 employers but still reflective of the significant investment made in recent years to HMRC NMW compliance teams.
Guidance is published by BEIS and the latest available (April 2017) guidance is available to download – it is updated to take account of tribunal rulings and should be considered a ‘must read’ document.
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