When NMW increases over salary

ohreally

Guerillatoker wrote: »

Such as?..

Estate agents.

nalimcc

General_Grant wrote: »

If your contract says you are contracted for 40 hours and your employer does not want to pay you more than you have been receiving which is now below NMW, then tell them you will have to regularly work less than 40 hours (state whatever it will be) in order that they are not breaking the law.

Being "salaried" is not relevant, hours worked and amount paid is.

Thank you for the help, I will be speaking to him about it this week.

getmore4less

nalimcc wrote: »

If there's a few of you in the same boat then perhaps you can approach together. Surely your salary should be raised every time minimum wage rises or what's the point?

I'm having the same issue but my employer says because I'm salaried and the hours are flexible (I can leave early if I need to) then it all works itself out. Now that minimum wage is raised I'm technically under it if I do 40 hours as in my contract. Frustrating.

You need to clarify exactly what that means as a 40hr contract and a flexible hours one are not the same.

What approach you you take to fix the problem may be different depending on what the contract really is.

Also you need to be paid min wage within each pay period.

suki1964

Guerillatoker wrote: »

Such as?..

I was wondering the same thing........

Takmon

andydownes123 wrote: »

Just wondered if anyone is in this position. I have colleagues that are within 50p of being over taken by the National Minimum Wage...what happens then?

You should be discussing with your employer about an annual pay rise to cover inflation otherwise you and your colleagues are being paid less and less each year.

We get an annual pay rise each year that more than covers any inflation and this is completely separate to any pay rises for progression and good performance. I think this should be the standard for all employers and they really should do it unless they have a good reason not too.

System

Takmon wrote: »

You should be discussing with your employer about an annual pay rise to cover inflation otherwise you and your colleagues are being paid less and less each year.

We get an annual pay rise each year that more than covers any inflation and this is completely separate to any pay rises for progression and good performance. I think this should be the standard for all employers and they really should do it unless they have a good reason not too.

No pay rise at all this year unfortuntely. Not even for inflation.