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Are you being paid the national minimum wage?
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gregglesuk said:I have a friend who works for tesco - they currently get £11.07 an hour but are being told they won't be getting a pay rise until april 28th.
Is this legal?
I thought the new minimum wage took effect from april 1st.
Can anyone shed any light on this?
The new rates apply to the first full pay period falling after the 1st April and not the day the work is done.
So if you are paid monthly on the 28th, your pay period would be 29th March to 28th April - so these would be at the old rate and then the higher rates would apply to the pay you get in the next pay period (29th April to 28th May).
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NorthantsPete81 said:I think the law needs changing for being on call. A judge in america ruled that a fireman who was on call 24/7 had no free time which is illegal and got paid full time wage for being on call because he had time restraints.
ALL people in IT have a response time required so you cant go camping or shopping in case you get called out and have to log on and spend upto 24 hours fixing problems... sometimes there is no backup so its JUST YOU supporting multiple businesses out of hours as a cheap way for big business to cover their services without paying for a 24/7 rota.
we get paid £2 an hour to be on call yet if we dont respond in a certain time or the customer doesn't get a fix you get disciplinary action, so i put it that we are actually on shift and should be paid full time wage like a night shift and not just the time we work but the time we are acting as a call centre.
the company just brush it under the carpet saying " it doesn't happen that often" or " we had no priority 1 this week so once again we dont need to pay you time" yet here we all are nervous we cant go anywhere in case the phone goes off. Ive had guys who cancel kids plays or football training because " we may have to work".. that to me says our free time is affected.
To me, we are like the fireman, if we have a responsibility to work within a time frame we should be paid full time. it cannot impact our free time, which it does , otherwise you're on company time.
Law says nothing, it just says " check your contract" ..and those contracts are slavery, in my eyes, they can make it up as they go along
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General_Grant said:gregglesuk said:I have a friend who works for tesco - they currently get £11.07 an hour but are being told they won't be getting a pay rise until april 28th.
Is this legal?
I thought the new minimum wage took effect from april 1st.
Can anyone shed any light on this?
Meeting the requirement to pay at least national minimums depends on the average pay during the pay reference period.
So it probably depends on exactly when the new Tesco rate applies.
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gregglesuk said:the pay is going to approx £12.xx so will be above the new NWM - they're being told that as because the pay period is april then it only applies AFTER that pay periodSignature removed for peace of mind0
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