United Kingdom > Wages

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Conditions of Employment (Standard Minimum Wage) (Amendment) Order 2018 (L.N. No. 133 of 2019). -

Adoption: 2019-07-04 | GBR-2019-R-109371

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Conditions of Employment (Standard Minimum Wage) (Amendment) Order 2018 (L.N. No. 164 of 2018). -

Adoption: 2018-07-19 | GBR-2018-R-109370

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Conditions of Employment (Standard Minimum Wage) (Amendment) Order 2017 (L.N. No. 137 of 2017). -

Adoption: 2017-07-06 | GBR-2017-R-109369

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Employment Rights (Minimum Wage) Regulation, 2013 (L.N. No. 24 of 2013). -

Adoption: 2013-04-23 | GBR-2013-R-95803

The minimum wages payable under the Employment Rights Ordinance, 2010 shall be £2.30 per hour and the minimum wage for workers under the age of 18 years old shall be £1.45 per hour. Contains provisions covering exclusions from the minimum wage, determination of hourly wage, records, remuneration and resolution of disputes.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Conditions of Employment (Standard Minimum Wage) (Amendment) Order 2010 (LN 186 of 2010). -

Adoption: 2011-01-01 | GBR-2011-R-101771

United Kingdom - Wages - Law, Act

Minimum Wage (Guernsey) Law, 2009. -

Adoption: 2010 | Date of entry into force: 2010-10-01 | GBR-2007-L-93049

Part I - Entitlement to Minimum Wage
Part II - Setting and Amending the Minimum Wage and the Young Persons' Minimum Wage Rate
Part III - Enforcement
Part IV - Exclusion and Special Classes of Person
Part V - General Provisions

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Employment (Maximum Amount of a Week's Pay) Order 2009 (S.D. 0225/09). -

Adoption: 2009-07-20 | GBR-2009-R-81131

This Order increases from £420 to £480 the maximum amount of a week's pay, which is used for calculating (a) the basic award of compensation which may be made by the Employment Tribunal on a complaint of unfair dismissal, and various other awards under the Employment Act 2006 and the Minimum Wage Act 2001, and (b) a redundancy payment under the Redundancy Payments Act 1990. The increase applies where the event giving rise to the entitlement to the award or payment occurred on or after 20th July 2009.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

The National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1902). -

Adoption: 2009-07-15 | Date of entry into force: 2009-10-01 | GBR-2009-R-81732

Increases the minimum wage to 5.80£ per hour for adults, as well as increasing the minimum wage for young adults (18-21 years) and young workers (16-17 years). Provides that persons participating the the Ec Erasmus and Comenius programmes do not qualify for the minimum wage.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Employment (Awards) (Jersey) Order 2009. -

Adoption: 2009 | GBR-2009-R-93058

1. Interpretation
2. Calculation of Weekly Pay
3. Scale of Compensation in Cases of Unfair Dismissal
4. Maximum Award by Tribunal
5. Citation

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

The Employee Share Schemes (Electronic Communication of Returns and Information) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007 No. 792). -

Adoption: 2007-03-13 | Date of entry into force: 2007-04-06 | GBR-2007-R-75707

These Regulations provide for the use of approved methods of electronic communications for the delivery of information required under some of the Chapters of Part 7 of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1).

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Employment (Minimum Wage) (Jersey) Order 2007. -

Adoption: 2007 | GBR-2007-R-93059

1. Interpretation
2. The minimum wage
3. Pay reference period
4. Records to be kept by employers
5. Maximum amount of compensation for detrimental treatment
6. Citation

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Minimum Wage (Single Hourly Rate) Regulations 2006 (S.D. No. 444/06).

Adoption: 2006-06-21 | Date of entry into force: 2006-10-01 | GBR-2006-R-77151

Increase the single hourly rate of the minimum wage from £5.25 to £5.40 in respect of any pay reference period beginning on or after 1st October 2006.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Employment (Minimum Wage) (Jersey) Regulations 2004. -

Adoption: 2004 | GBR-2004-R-93060

1. Interpretation
2. Meaning of 'payments'
3. Benefits in kind that count as payments
4. Trainees may be treated as qualifying for the minimum wage at a different rate
5. Calculation of hours worked in a pay reference period
6. How to determine whether the minimum wage has been paid
7. Payments by the employer that are to be taken into account
8. Things that must not be taken into account
9. Limits on amounts that may be taken into account for the provision of food and living accommodation
10. Citation

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

National Minimum Wage (Enforcement Notices) Act 2003. -

Adoption: 2003-05-08 | GBR-2003-R-64408

Made under National Minimum Wage Act 1998. Provides for enforcement notice under section 19 of Act to impose requirement under subsection 2 of that section in relation to a person. Also limits pay reference periods in respect of which a requirement under subsection 2 of that section may be imposed.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

The National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (Amendment) Regulations 2002 (SI 2002 No. 1999). -

Adoption: 2002-07-25 | Date of entry into force: 2002-10-01 | GBR-2002-R-71773

Increase the minimum hourly rate of the national minimum wage from £4.10 to £4.20. They also increase the rate to be paid to those (including workers aged between 18 and 21 inclusive) who qualify for the national minimum wage at a different rate, from £3.50 to £3.60.

United Kingdom - Wages - Law, Act

Employee Share Schemes Act 2002 (c. 34). -

Adoption: 2002 | Date of entry into force: 2003-04-06 | GBR-2002-L-63663

Amends Finance Act 2000 with regard to employee ownership plans, supplementary deductions, and deductions of income tax and capital gains tax.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

The National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2001 (SI 2001 No. 2763). -

Adoption: 2001-07-27 | Date of entry into force: 2001-10-01 | GBR-2001-R-71772

Increase the minimum hourly rate of the national minimum wage from £3.70 to £4.10. They increase the rate to be paid to those (including workers aged between 18 and 21 inclusive) who qualify for the national minimum wage at a different rate, from £3.20 to £3.50. They also make a number of other amendments to the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999.

United Kingdom - Wages - Law, Act

Minimum Wage Act 2001 (AT 25 of 2001). -

Adoption: 2001-07-11 | GBR-2001-L-77147

Makes provision for and in connection with a minimum wage and to amend the Agricultural Wages Act 1952.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Conditions of Employment (Standard Minimum Wage) Order, 2001 (No. 65 of 2001). -

Adoption: 2001-06-07 | Date of entry into force: 2001-07-02 | GBR-2001-R-59524

Applies to: (a) employees who are engaged in full-time course of education and who are employed during academic holiday periods; (b) apprentices or trainees whose service ends at the end of their apprenticeship or traineeship; (c) domestic servants working in private households; and (d) seafarers employed in sea-going vessels registered in Gibraltar. Makes provision for standard minimum remuneration and guaranteed minimum remuneration. Made under the employment ordinance.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

The National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (SI 2001 No. 1108). -

Adoption: 2001-03-20 | Date of entry into force: 2001-05-01 | GBR-2001-R-71771

Ensure that all trainees on the Government training schemes to which the Regulations relate are excluded from entitlement to the national minimum wage during the first 12 months of their engagement under a scheme or if they are under 19.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

The National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (Amendment) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000 No. 1989). -

Adoption: 2000-07-25 | Date of entry into force: 2000-10-01 | GBR-2000-R-71769

Increase the minimum hourly rate of the national minimum wage from £3.60 to £3.70 and make a number of other amendments to the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

The National Minimum Wage (Offshore Employment) Order 1999 (SI 1999 No. 1128). -

Adoption: 1999-04-13 | Date of entry into force: 1999-05-01 | GBR-1999-R-71770

Extends the provisions of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 to workers who work in the territorial waters of the United Kingdom and workers who work in the United Kingdom sector of the continental shelf but does not include work done on ships in navigation, or engaged in fishing or dredging.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

The National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 (SI 1999 No. 584). -

Adoption: 1999-03-06 | Date of entry into force: 1999-04-01 | GBR-1999-R-71768

Part I - General and interpretation
Part II - The rate of the national minimum wage
Part III - Working time for the purpose of the national minimum wage
Part IV - Remuneration counting towards the national minimum wage
Part V - Records

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

The National Minimum Wage Act 1998 (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (SI 1999 No. 583). -

Adoption: 1999-03-05 | Date of entry into force: 1999-03-06 | GBR-1999-R-71767

Amends section 3 of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 by adding a new subsection (1A). Section 3 permits the Secretary of State to prevent persons who have not attained the age of 26 from qualifying for the national minimum wage or to prescribe a different hourly rate, from that of the single hourly rate of the national minimum wage, which is to apply to them.

United Kingdom - Wages - Law, Act

National Minimum Wage Act 1998 (c. 39). -

Adoption: 1998-07-31 | GBR-1998-L-52041

Provides for national minimum wage, which shall be set by the Secretary of State. The Secretary may prescribe a different minimum wage for persons under the age of 26. Establishes a Low Pay Commission which shall make recommendations regarding minimum wage. Provides for inspection of records regarding minimum wage and financial penalties for non-compliance. S. 28 provides for the reversal of the burden of proof in respect of complaints that minimum wage was not paid, so that it shall be presumed that minimum wage was not paid unless the contrary is established. Makes subsequent amendments to legislation regarding agricultural wages in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Education (School Teachers' Pay and Conditions) Order 1997 (No. 755).

Adoption: 1997-03-13 | Date of entry into force: 1997-04-04 | GBR-1997-R-54296

Amends the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document 1996 by uprating the amounts of salary and certain allowances. These changes relate to head and deputy head teachers, classroom teachers and unqualified teachers.

United Kingdom - Wages - Law, Act

Prisoner's Earnings Act 1996 (Chapter 33).

Adoption: 1996-07-18 | GBR-1996-L-54790

Authorizes deductions from or levies on prisoners' earnings. Establishes the limits on the amount of such levies and deductions. Provides for the application for such deductions or levies and connected purposes.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Insolvency of Employer (Excluded Classes) Regulations 1995 (No. 278 of 1995)

Adoption: 1995-02-02 | Date of entry into force: 1995-03-09 | GBR-1995-R-40075

Gives effect to certain obligations arising from the European Economic Area Agreement by providing that those who under their contract of employment ordinarily work in Austria, Finland, Iceland, Norway or Sweden come within the ambit of Part VII of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978. Part VII of the 1978 Act regulates the position concerning the entitlement of employees to recover outstanding payments upon the insolvency of their employer. Made under the European Communities Act 1972.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Guarantee Payments (Exemption) (No. 29) Order 1994 (S.I. No. 1409 of 1994)

Adoption: 1994-05-23 | Date of entry into force: 1994-07-01 | GBR-1994-R-37217

Excludes from the operation of section 12 of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 employees to whom the collective agreement made between the parties described in Schedule 1 to the Order relates. Revokes the Guarantee Payments (Exemption) (No. 3) Order 1977. Sets out the material provisions of the 1992 version of the collective agreement referred to above.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (S.I. No. 2668 (N.I.11) of 1993) -

Adoption: 1993-10-27 | GBR-1993-R-36053

This Order, which is made only for the purposes to which section 54(1) of the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993 applies, amends the law relating to employment rights and the constitution and jurisdiction of industrial tribunals and abolishes the right to statutory minimum remuneration.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Conditions of Employment (Printing Industry) Order 1992 (L.N. No. 116 of 1992) -

Adoption: 1992-08-20 | Date of entry into force: 1992-08-31 | GBR-1992-R-30066

This Order made pursuant to the Employment Ordinance establishes minimum weekly remuneration, minimum overtime rates, and guaranteed minimum remuneration for the printing industry.

United Kingdom - Wages - Law, Act

Christmas Bonus (Jersey) Law 1991.

Adoption: 1991-11-01 | GBR-1991-L-79382

Makes provision for the payment of an annual lump sum to various categories of person at the end of the year.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Conditions of Employment (Transport Contracting Undertakings) Order, l990 (LN. 1990/092). -

Adoption: 1990-07-12 | GBR-1990-R-92608

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Employment (Retail Distributive Trade) (Amendment) Order 1990. L.N. No. 83.

Adoption: 1990-06-28 | GBR-1990-R-20517

Amendments in respect of time and a fifth, time and a half, double time, and work on Saturdays in the retail distributive trade.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Employment Protection Ordinance 1989. No. 8. -

Adoption: 1989-07-26 | GBR-1989-R-8529

An Ordinance to confer statutory rights on employees arising out of their employment and for purposes connected therewith. Part II provides for particular terms of employment. Part III provides for rights arising in the course of employment. Sections 26-30 provide for trade union membership and activities. Part IV provides for maternity pay, benefits and the right to return to work. Part VI provides rules for unfair dismissal. Part VII concerns redundancy payments. Part VIII provides for employees rights in respect of insolvency of employer.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Employment Protection (Variation of Limits) Order 1989 (S.I. No. 526 of 1989)

Adoption: 1989-03-16 | Date of entry into force: 1989-04-01 | GBR-1989-R-8689

Varies certain of the limits which are required to be reviewed annually by the Secretary of State under section 148 of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 (LS 1984 - UK 1A).

United Kingdom - Wages - Law, Act

Health and Medicines Act 1988 (Chapter 49)

Adoption: 1988-11-15 | GBR-1988-L-7425

Makes further provision in relation to the National Health Service, including retirement of practioners (section 8) and remuneration in respect of training (section 15).

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Employment Protection (Medical Suspension) Order 1988 (S.I. No. 1746 of 1988)

Adoption: 1988-10-10 | Date of entry into force: 1989-10-01 | GBR-1988-R-7414

Removes provisions from, and adds one provision to, the list of specified provisions in Schedule 1 to the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 (see LS 1984 - UK 1A), in consequence of the adoption of the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 1988. An employee suspended from work on medical grounds is entitled to be paid remuneration by the employer, where provided by the 1978 Act.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Wages (Northern Ireland) Order 1988. S.I. No. 796 (N.I. 7).

Adoption: 1988-04-27 | GBR-1988-R-6145

Part II of the Order makes fresh provision for the protection of workers in relation to the payment of wages. It sets general restrictions on deductions which may be made from wages and on payments which may be received by employers, and lays down provisions on deductions from wages of workers in retail employment on account of cash shortages. It also governs complaints regarding unauthorised deductions. Part III revises the scope of operation and powers of wages councils and provides that the Wages Councils (Northern Ireland) Order 1982 (S.I. N.I. 23) shall, in general, cease to have effect (s. 13). This Part contains provisions on computation and apportionment of remuneration, application of wages orders to piece workers and enforcement. Part IV sets forth excluded employments. Entry into force two months from date of being made, with stated exceptions (s. 1).

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Merchant Shipping (Maintenance of Seamen's Dependants) (Amendment) Regulations 1988 (S.I. No. 479 of 1988)

Adoption: 1988-03-11 | GBR-1988-R-4973

Amends the 1972 Regulations of the same name in relation to deductions from wages to cover social security benefits.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Prison Regulations 1987. Legal Notice No. 29.

Adoption: 1987-02-02 | GBR-1987-R-3146

Inter alia, governs work to which prisoners may be assigned and a wage-earning scheme (ss. 57-61).

United Kingdom - Wages - Law, Act

National Health Service (Amendment) Act 1986 (Chapter 66)

Adoption: 1986-11-07 | GBR-1986-L-5200

Inter alia, makes certain regulatory measures relating to health and safety applicable to certain health service bodies and premises; makes further provision as to the determination of the remuneration of persons in services covered by the National Health Service Act 1977 and the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978. Northern Ireland is covered by section 7 only.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Contracting-out (Requisite Benefits - Consequential Provisions) Regulations 1986 (S.I. No. 1716 of 1986)

Adoption: 1986-10-03 | GBR-1986-R-2598

Issued in relation to section 8 of the Social Security Act 1986 in regard to the contracting-out of an occupational pension scheme. In such cases, the scheme need no longer provide requisite benefits as such, but must still provide guaranteed minimum pensions.

United Kingdom - Wages - Law, Act

Insolvency Act 1986 (Chapter 45)

Adoption: 1986-07-25 | GBR-1986-L-2357

Consolidates the enactments relating to insolvency and winding up of companies (including those that are not insolvent, and unregistered companies) and insolvency and bankruptcy of individuals. It contains provisions regarding, inter alia, the power to make over assets to employees and preferential debts. Schedule 6 appended to the Act lists the categories of preferential debts. Social security contributions are category 3; contributions to occupational pension schemes make up category 4; and remuneration, etc., of employees constitutes category 5. The Schedule sections entitled "Interpretation for category 5" specify that remuneration includes: a guarantee payment under section 12(1) and the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978; payments for time off for trade union duties, ante-natal care or looking for work under that Act; redundancy compensation awarded under section 101 of the Employment Protection Act 1975; remuneration payable to a person on sick leave or holiday leave; and accrued holiday remuneration.

United Kingdom - Wages - Law, Act

Wages Act 1986 (Chapter 48)

Adoption: 1986-07-25 | GBR-1986-L-2485

Part I of the Act relates to the protection of workers in relation to the payment of wages. It restricts the circumstances in which an employer may make deductions from wages. In section 11, it repeals the enactments listed in Schedule 1 to the Act, which imposed restrictions in relation to the payment of wages in cash to manual and other workers (including sections 135 and 135A of the Factories Act 1961 (Chapter 34) (LS 1961 - UK 1). Part II of the new Act limits the scope of operation of Wage Councils created under the Wage Councils Act 1979, which ceases to have effect. They may now fix wages only of workers over the age of 21. Schedule 2 contains fresh rules for the constitution of wages councils. The new enactment also contains, inter alia, provisions regarding piece work as well as record-keeping requirements in connection with enforcement. Part III places limits on redundancy rebates to employers with fewer than ten employees. In Part IV, the scope of application of the Act is stated and varying dates for entry into force for different sections are given. In all, six Schedules are attached.

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Conditions of Employment (Licensed Non-Residential Establishments) Order 1986. L.N. No. 54. -

Adoption: 1986-05-29 | GBR-1986-R-2328

Sets forth minimum weekly remuneration and overtime rates of pay, maximum working hours and maximum deductions from wages for food, drink and lodging for workers employed in any licensed non-residential establishment (caterers, bars, cafes, etc.). Issued under s. 36 of the Employment Ordinance.

United Kingdom - Wages - Law, Act

Education (Amendment) Act 1986 (Chapter 1)

Adoption: 1986-02-17 | GBR-1986-L-5201

Excludes remunerations for midday supervision from the Remuneration of Teachers Act 1965 (Chapter 3).

United Kingdom - Wages - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

The Remuneration of Teachers (Further Education) (Amendment) Order 1986 (S.I. No. 176 of 1986)

Adoption: 1986-02-03 | GBR-1986-R-2040

Amendments to the salary scales and other provisions for determining the remuneration of teachers in further education establishments paid by local authorities.

United Kingdom - Wages - Law, Act

Insolvency Act 1985 (Chapter 65)

Adoption: 1985-10-30 | GBR-1985-L-5013

United Kingdom - Wages - Law, Act

Bankruptcy (Scoltland) Act 1986. Chap. 66.

Adoption: 1985-10-30 | GBR-1985-L-5015