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The Low Pay Commission is seeking evidence to inform recommendations on minimum wage rates in 2024 and beyond.
The Low Pay Commission's annual report for 2022 sets out in full the evidence used to inform its recommendations on National Minimum Wage rates.
Millions of UK workers will receive a pay rise as the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rise comes into effect.
The LPC's 2023 report on compliance and enforcement presents data on underpayment and explores the persistence of underpayment for individual workers.
The Low Pay Commission is an independent body that advises the government about the National Living Wage and the National Minimum Wage.
The government has approved a rise in the National Minimum Wage to £6.50 per hour.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Fees and expenses paid to Low Pay Commissioners between April 2021 and March 2022.
The LPC has updated its list of low-paying sectors. This page contains tables with full details of the new occupation and industry groups.
Announcement of the 2021 National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates.
This short report looks at the impact of the increase in National Minimum Wage rates in April 2024, and projects the National Living Wage rate for April 2025.
The age threshold for the National Living Wage changes from 25 to 23 as the rate increases on 1 April.
The government has today named and shamed nearly 180 employers for underpaying more than 9,000 minimum wage workers by £1.1 million.
On the 20th anniversary of the National Minimum Wage, a new report by the Low Pay Commission examines how the policy has transformed the UK labour market.
Workers on the minimum wage will receive a higher percentage increase in pay than most other workers across the economy.
Millions of UK workers to receive increase in pay from April 2021 following rise in the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage.
This page collects the annual reports from the Low Pay Commission to the Government on the National Minimum Wage.
The Low Pay Commission's 2019 recommendations complete the path originally set out in 2015.
We are seeking views on the proposals made by the Low Pay Commission, to address the issue of ‘one-sided flexibility’.
Bryan Sanderson, Chair of the Low Pay Commission (LPC), today welcomed the Government's announcement that it has accepted in full the recommendations the LPC made for future minimum wage rates.
Two tables summarising data from the 2015 and 2019 ASHE surveys.
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