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national minimum wage
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26th May 2016 by Norman Davies in Campaigns
Are you entitled to National Living Wage?
Most people who work are entitled to get paid at least the National Minimum Wage. This includes casual workers, people on zero hours contracts and agency workers. If you are 25 or over and are entitled to the National Minimum Wage, you should now be entitled to the higher rate of £7.20 per hour (before tax) called the National Living […]
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4th May 2016 by manager in Campaigns
A Sense of Fair Play
A fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work. A reasonable basis for any employer-employee relationship. However, Citizens Advice is finding an increase in instances across the country of confusing working hours, poor administration and legal loopholes leading to workers being underpaid and in extreme cases not paid at all. Citizens Advice helped clients with […]
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14th April 2016 by Norman Davies in Campaigns
If you are under 25, you aren’t entitled to the National Living Wage
There is no definitive explanation as to why the First of April is associated with hoaxes and fools, a widespread tradition which goes back hundreds of years. Some historians have suggested it originated in the Middle Ages, when people who continued to celebrate new year’s day at the end of March were ridiculed because it […]
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30th July 2015 by Norman Davies in Campaigns
Age Discrimination if you carry on working?
Do you want to keep on working but worry about discrimination because of your age? There are now numerous options for retiring or continuing to work after the age of 55. Recent legislation has made it possible to access private pensions from the age of 55, but the age at which you can access the […]
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5th February 2015 by manager in Campaigns
National Minimum Wage
Do you know what you are entitled to? or, if you are an employer – what you should be paying? The National Minimum Wage is the minimum pay per hour almost all workers are entitled to by law. It doesn’t matter how small an employer is, they still have to pay the minimum wage. Contracts […]
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