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Check if your pay matches the National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage or if your employer owes you payments from the previous year.
A collection of active MINs, published by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).
Minimum wage rates for different types of paid employment - time work, output work, unmeasured work, salaried hours work.
The National Minimum Wage is worked out at an hourly rate, but it applies…
Workers paid according to the number of hours they are at work are classed…
Most people paid an annual salary are classed as doing ‘salaried hours…
Workers paid per task they perform or piece of work they do (known as…
If the work is not covered by any of the other types of work, it’s…
Who's entitled to the minimum wage, what's included when working out the minimum wage, and what happens if there's a dispute.
Minimum wage rates increase on 1 April. This short report looks at the 2021 increases and the path ahead for the next year.
Guidance on when seafarers and other persons who work at sea are entitled to the minimum wage.
Find out the scale rate expenses for accommodation and subsistence paid to employees who travel outside of the UK.
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