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Your pay - your payslip, performance-related pay, deductions and how to work out your weekly pay
When you start work, your employer should tell you how much you’ll be paid…
Knowing how to work out your weekly pay is important because it’s used to…
If your pay or working hours vary from week to week, the calculations for…
Your employer should base your performance-related pay on clear,…
Your employer is not allowed to make deductions unless: it’s required or…
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.
Redundancy payments are made up of several different elements. Find out more about how we work out what you’re owed and what we can pay you.
Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.
Use this if your payroll software or the GOV.UK calculator does not calculate your employee’s payments.
How you'll be paid, what you’ll be paid, and how to check your pay when you’re employed by an umbrella company as a temporary worker.
Manually calculate if your payroll software or GOV.UK calculator does not calculate your employee’s payments.
Use form SPP1 if you're an employer and need to tell an employee why they aren't entitled to receive Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP).
How to make debt deductions from an employee's pay because of an 'attachment of earnings order' (AEO) from a court. Includes information from the withdrawn A/E guidance.
Who's entitled to the minimum wage, what's included when working out the minimum wage, and what happens if there's a dispute.
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