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On Thursday 8 May 2025, the Attorney General Lord Hermer KC delivered the Thompson Foundation Lecture on “Employment law and the fundamental right to security”

• Updated: 9 May 2025

Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.

• Overview

  The National Minimum Wage is worked out at an hourly rate, but it applies…

• Paid by the hour

  Workers paid according to the number of hours they are at work are classed…

• Paid an annual salary

  Most people paid an annual salary are classed as doing ‘salaried hours…

• Paid per task or piece of work done

  Workers paid per task they perform or piece of work they do (known as…

• Paid in other ways (unmeasured work)

  If the work is not covered by any of the other types of work, it’s…

Nottingham Prison is a men’s prison in the Sherwood area of Nottingham and serves courts in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

• Updated: 14 November 2024

Foreign Secretary David Lammy will visit Lviv today in joint show of support for Ukraine, as the UK announces sanctions on 100 ships in the Russian shadow fleet.

• Updated: 9 May 2025

How the Thames Barrier works, and when it is scheduled to close.

• Updated: 1 May 2025

Overtime law - what is overtime, overtime pay, employee rights, part-time workers and time off in lieu

Part-time workers should not be treated less favourably than full-time workers; employers' responsibilities and what part-time workers can do if they're treated unfairly

• Updated: 21 October 2015

Working time directive and maximum weekly working hours including how to calculate your weekly working hours and working time limits if you're a young worker.

Pentonville is a men’s prison and young offender institution in the London Borough of Islington, North London.

• Updated: 23 April 2025