All news on the topic: Minimum wage

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'Labour should not obsess about Uxbridge defeat but celebrate Selby victory'
Kevin Maguire says it is vital that Labour improves communications and puts more effort into selling policies, including the case for cleaner air when pollution kills tens of thousands of people every year
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60 firms that failed to pay minimum wage pick up £3.4billion in public cash
The companies – among 202 named and shamed by the Department for Business and Trade – have been paid for government contracts since 2016, analysts Tussell found
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'Fortune favours the bold - Starmer knows he won't be forgiven if Labour lose'
Haunted by ghosts of Neil Kinnock in 1992 and Ed Miliband in 2010, defeat snatched from the jaws of victory is the nightmare of increasingly optimistic Labour Shadow Cabinet Ministers
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Three retail giants raked in £11million despite workers financial struggles
WHSmith, Argos and M&S were among 202 companies a Government report said had fallen foul of wages legislation
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Argos & WH Smith fined for failing to pay minimum wage - full list of 200 firms
The companies are among 200 others that have been "named and shamed" by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) for short-changing staff between 2017 and 2019
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Unpaid carers demand increase on allowance as payments at 'poverty pay' levels
Unpaid carers are urging the Government to raise the pay cap to qualify for Carer’s Allowance from £139 to £218.92 a week. Carer’s Allowance increased by 10.1% in April, to £76.25
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Self-employed Brits caught by Universal Credit trap - as numbers double in year
The number of self-employed households receiving Universal Credit who are subject to the ‘Minimum Income Floor’ (MIF) – which cuts their benefit payments – more than doubled in a year to February 2023
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'The Tories have broken Britain'
The Tories have matched Labour's record for the length of time in power, says Fleet Street Fox. But they've broken Britain doing it
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Shein's dark side - 'workers paid 3p', disturbing notes, toxic item claims
Shein has become the world's largest online fast-fashion retailer - but the brand is shrouded in controversy over its cost-cutting practices after Channel 4 went undercover
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HMRC urges everyone earning minimum wage to check their pay slips
On April 1 2023, the minimum wage in the UK rose by 92p from £9.50 to £10.42 an hour and this is the legal minimum an employer can pay anyone working in the UK
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'Rishi Sunak is merely putting a sticking plaster over real problems in the NHS'
Prime Minister's trip home was an attempt to show he hadn’t always been richer than King Charles III – and gave him something to say about the NHS crisis that was 'really personal'
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£15-an-hour wage for carers would deliver £7.7bn economic boost - see your area
Workers' leaders today demand a pay hike for carers in a move aimed at filling the 165,000 vacancies blighting the sector and easing gender and race pay gaps
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Voters demand pay boost for struggling carers to make them equal with NHS staff
A petition calls on the Government to place care workers on Band 3 of the NHS's national pay scheme - giving carers a much-needed salary hike
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Millions of workers to take home more cash as new law on tipping passes
The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 received Royal Assent yesterday makes it unlawful for businesses to hold back service charges from their employees
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Bid to boost social carers' pay and ease chronic crisis clears first stage
A Labour backbencher's Bill to enforce rules around carers being paid for travel time has passed its first Commons hurdle - and is due to back in front of MPs in six months
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Social care 'lowest paid of any job in Britain', spluttering top Tory is told
Care Minister Helen Whately faced a tough 90 minutes of questioning from MPs on the Commons Health and Social Care Committee over wage rates and chronic levels of vacancies
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Surge in zero hours contracts with North East hit by biggest rise
The Tories vowed to tackle precarious zero hours contracts five years ago but the Government has failed to deliver on its promise
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MP launches new Bill bid so carers are paid minimum wage for travelling time
Labour MP Paula Barker will unveil a Ten Minute Rule Bill next month to try and enforce existing legislation - and hand carers vital extra cash they should be getting anyway
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Senior Tory MP issues warning over 'growing' funding gap for free school meals
A former minister will use a Westminster Hall hearing on Tuesday to air concerns about the cost to schools, as the Mirror ramps up our Free School Meals For All campaign
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Millions of workers set for pay rise from today - as minimum wage goes up
The National Living Wage, for those aged 23 and over, is rising from £9.50 to £10.42 - an increase of 92p - from April 1, but this increase is still below inflation
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Difference between minimum pay and Real Living Wage 'worth 14 weeks of food'
The analysis comes from the Living Wage Foundation as the Government's legal pay floor rises on Saturday - sparking calls for companies to go even further if they can afford to
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Primark giving 26,000 shop workers a pay rise from April - see new hourly rates
Primark said the wage increase follows the retailer's plan announced last November of investing at least £140million in the UK high street over the next two years
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Tories have overseen worst living standards drop in modern times, study finds
Damning analysis by the TUC ruled that by next year, household disposable incomes will have fallen for nearly half of the time the Conservatives have been in office
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Court orders husband to pay ex-wife £180,000 for 25 years of unpaid housework
Ivana Moral, from Malaga, Spain, told a courtroom in Vélez-Málaga of how she felt "economically threatened, worthless, and dependent" during her 25-year-long marriage
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Pret A Manger is giving almost 8,000 workers their third pay rise in a year
The sandwich and coffee chain is to hike hourly pay for team members in April from £10.30 to £10.60, or from £11.55 to £11.90, depending on your location and experience