Newsnight: Immigrant Workers Exploited
Last night Newsnight broadcast an investigation into the exploitation of immigrant labour in London hotels. Newsnight found that workers were being paid according to the number of rooms cleaned not hours worked. This meant that workers were regularly being paid below the £5.73 per hour minimum adult wage. Example payslips which the BBC uncovered [...]
UK’s Minimum Wage rises today, 1st October 2008
The minimum wage in the UK will rise today, 1st October, in the 10th Anniversary year of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) legislation being passed.
Minimum wage rates for over 21s will rise from £5.52 to £5.73 per hour, whilst the minimum wage for 18 to 22 year olds increases from £4.60 to £4.77, and from [...]
Tipping in the Service Industry – Progress!
Today, on the 10th Anniversary of minimum wage legislation in the UK, the government have announced their intention to reform the rules on the use of tips to ‘top-up’ wages to minimum wage level.
We would like to congratulate the swift work of those who have campaigned on this issue, and have achieved a meaningful [...]