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It is illegal for your employer to pay you below the National Living Wage, so check your pay and talk to your manager to make sure you’re getting the wages you are entitled to.
This page contains the Low Pay Commission's advice to the Government on minimum wage policy beyond 2024.
Thousands of households across the UK are set to be around £3,850 better off as a raft of economic policies come into force.
The government's response to the Low Pay Commission’s recommendations on National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates.
Minimum wage rates increase on 1 April. This short report looks at the 2021 increases and the path ahead for the next year.
National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates increased on 1 April 2020. This report reviews those increases and the LPC's new remit to 2024.
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 Low Pay Commission publishes its 2023 Report looking at compliance and enforcement of the National Minimum Wage.
Accommodation provided by an employer can affect the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage: offset rates, accommodation charges.
The minimum wage rates increased on 1 April. This short report looks at the 2022 increases and the path ahead for the next year.
This report sets out the Low Pay Commission's analysis of underpayment of the minimum wage and the enforcement regime.
Regulatory Policy Committee opinion on DWP's National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2022
Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.
Explains the national living wage (NLW) announced in the Summer Budget 2015.
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