Minimum Wage Marks its 15th Year

Peninsula Team

October 02 2014

It has been 15 years since the National Minimum Wage was introduced. It is now such an accepted part of business that it’s easy to forget that it was quite a controversial move when it was first mooted and introduced. National Minimum Wage With the introduction of a new set of rates on 1 October 2014, Peninsula has produced a white paper covering the history, debates and future of the minimum wage. It covers the gradual increases in rates and new categories, the pressure on the wage in both directions from employee groups and from business, and some projections as to the NMW’s future direction based on recent pronouncements by political parties. There is also information wage offsets, exemptions and business owners’ responsibility and measures HMRC can take should they fall short. The paper is essential reading for anyone interested in the minimum wage as a concept, particularly for business owners looking to plan salary expenditure when ideas such as the “living wage” are gaining a political foothold. Download it below. Download Our Minimum Wage White Paper On October 1, the rates of all categories rose. Here are the new rates:
AgeRate
21 and over£6.50 per hour
Age 18 to 20£5.13 per hour
Under 18£3.79 per hour
Apprentice£2.73 per hour

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