nationalminimumwage

21

Sep

2022

Offering Internships? You May Have to Pay the National Minimum Wage

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Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

Employers who offer unpaid internships often feel that they are acting benevolently in giving inexperienced people a chance to learn the ropes. However, many interns have a legal right to be paid the National Minimum Wage (NMW) and, as one case...

29

May

2020

National Minimum Wage test case focuses on Season Tickets

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Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

The purpose of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) is to ensure that workers receive decent pay packets, into their own hands and free from deductions. The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) underlined that point in ruling that a football club failed to...

27

May

2020

Facing an Employment complaint? Playing the Ostrich is the worst option

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Written by Emma-Louise Hewitt

If you are on the receiving end of an employment complaint, burying your head in the sand is positively the worst thing you can do. The point was made by the case of a training company which came to regret its costly failure to take professional...

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