Minimum wage violation?

lesstoinvest

Basically £13,000/260 = £50 per day.

NMW is £6.08, so £50/6.08 = 8 hrs 13 minutes. Anything less than a 50 minute break, and it's illegal.

IME when she's done work before, they've had a 30 minute break.

1 hr would be quite a long break

I'm not sure if it's the agency or the hotel to blame tbh, all recruitment agents are scum IME.

marybelle01

You seem to be making an awful lot of assumptions about the legality or illegality of a job based on a piece of paper, no further information, and it being your wife's business anyway. No it doesn't sound very well paid, but as far as I know being a chef, unless you are one of the very fortunate few, isn't well paid. I would suggest that before you decide to apportion blame for who is breaking the law that you ascertain (a) that someone is and (b) that if they are your wife decide what she wishes to do or not do about it.

dandelionclock30

To clear this up, I would ask the agency what the hourly rate was and then take it from there.
If they are not prepared to pay the NMW, which is the law it doesnt bode well for them really does it?

paddedjohn

marybelle01 wrote: »

You seem to be making an awful lot of assumptions about the legality or illegality of a job based on a piece of paper, no further information, and it being your wife's business anyway. No it doesn't sound very well paid, but as far as I know being a chef, unless you are one of the very fortunate few, isn't well paid. I would suggest that before you decide to apportion blame for who is breaking the law that you ascertain (a) that someone is and (b) that if they are your wife decide what she wishes to do or not do about it.

What do you mean it's his wife business? A marriage is a partnership and it is the husbands job to look out for his wife. I take it you are either unmarried or not very happy.

maninthestreet

Are tips allowed to be included in the pay calculation for NMW? However, do chefs get any tips, surely it's the wait staff that get those?

Googlewhacker

maninthestreet wrote: »

Are tips allowed to be included in the pay calculation for NMW? However, do chefs get any tips, surely it's the wait staff that get those?

If it is fair the tips should be split across the board because frankly if the food was crap the wait staff would get no tips.

System

maninthestreet wrote: »

Are tips allowed to be included in the pay calculation for NMW?

As of 1 Oct 2009 tips can not be included in the calculation of NMW - http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/TheNationalMinimumWage/DG_10037277

marybelle01

paddedjohn wrote: »

What do you mean it's his wife business? A marriage is a partnership and it is the husbands job to look out for his wife. I take it you are either unmarried or not very happy.

I am neither, thank you for enquiring. But I no more interfere with my husbands business than he interferes with mine. We are both adults and quite capable of sorting out our own employment issues. Nor do we interfere with our (adult) childrens business. A partnership does not mean joined at the hip and unable to sort out our own affairs. I would be horrified if my husband posted my employment concerns on a public website - I am quite capable of asking either my agency or my potential employer the question. And seek as a may I cannot find the bit in the marriage ceremony that says it is a husbands job to look out for his wife. that sounds a rather antiquated notion - what do you think the wifes job is?

Notmyrealname

lesstoinvest wrote: »

It says 45 hours per week in shifts, so I don't think there's lunch, but there might be a meal break, it being in a restaurant, I suppose.

There has to be a break by law because it is over 6hrs per day.

Slinky

marybelle01 wrote: »

I am neither, thank you for enquiring. But I no more interfere with my husbands business than he interferes with mine. We are both adults and quite capable of sorting out our own employment issues. Nor do we interfere with our (adult) childrens business. A partnership does not mean joined at the hip and unable to sort out our own affairs. I would be horrified if my husband posted my employment concerns on a public website - I am quite capable of asking either my agency or my potential employer the question. And seek as a may I cannot find the bit in the marriage ceremony that says it is a husbands job to look out for his wife. that sounds a rather antiquated notion - what do you think the wifes job is?

Just because you would not choose to ask a question regarding your husband's employment does not mean that nobody else has the right to.