Updates: Calculating the minimum wage

2023

1 April 2023 published amendments

Calculating the minimum wage

Examples updated to use the minimum wage rates for 2023 to 2024.

Working hours for which the minimum wage must be paid

Examples updated to use the minimum wage rates for 2023 to 2024.

Enforcing the minimum wage

Examples updated to use the minimum wage rates for 2023 to 2024.

2022

26 July 2022 published amendments

Eligibility for the minimum wage

Added section on gig economy / platform-based workers.

5 April 2022 published amendments

Overview

Text updated to refer to 2022 to 2023 rates.

Index to the manual

New section added.

Calculating the minimum wage

Figures in examples changed to 2022 to 2023 rates.

Working hours for which the minimum wage must be paid

Examples updated to use minimum wage rates for the period 2022 to 2023.

Enforcing the minimum wage

Examples updated to use minimum wage rates for the period 2022 to 2023.

2021

4 August 2021 published amendments

Eligibility for the minimum wage

Apprentices: Guidance on paying the correct minimum wage rate to apprentices expanded to set out statutory apprenticeship agreements and contracts of apprenticeship

23 April 2021 published amendments

Working hours for which the minimum wage must be paid

Sleep-in shifts: examples added to clarify the position in light of the 2021 Supreme Court judgment.

19 March 2021 published amendments

Working hours for which the minimum wage must be paid

Guidance on sleep-in shifts being reviewed in light of a Supreme Court judgment.