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No national minimum wage increase because paid fortnightly
nez1880
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I have only been working for my employer for a couple of months, they are a huge leisure industry
We are paid fortnightly
My pay period was from the 29 th March to 11 th April
For the first week of that pay period I worked 24.53 hours at the rate of £7.83 per hour = £192.07
For the second week of that pay period I worked 25.90 hours at the rate of £7.83 per hour = £202.80
Only 3 days of this pay period were before 1 st April and yet not one single hour was paid at the new nmw rate
How are they allowed to get away with not giving anyone a pay rise in accordance with the nmw
They say its because the pay period started before April 1st but the simple fact is 11 out of those 14 days in that period were worked on and after April 1 st
This just doesn't seem fair, I've read some pages on the Acas site but I just can't see how this is allowed
We are paid fortnightly
My pay period was from the 29 th March to 11 th April
For the first week of that pay period I worked 24.53 hours at the rate of £7.83 per hour = £192.07
For the second week of that pay period I worked 25.90 hours at the rate of £7.83 per hour = £202.80
Only 3 days of this pay period were before 1 st April and yet not one single hour was paid at the new nmw rate
How are they allowed to get away with not giving anyone a pay rise in accordance with the nmw
They say its because the pay period started before April 1st but the simple fact is 11 out of those 14 days in that period were worked on and after April 1 st
This just doesn't seem fair, I've read some pages on the Acas site but I just can't see how this is allowed
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They are correct
Regulation 4B of the National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/621)
https://www.xperthr.co.uk/faq/what-rate-of-the-national-minimum-wage-is-payable-when-1-april-2019-falls-within-a-workers-pay-reference-period/27215/0 -
Thank you that explains it a lot clearer, seems so unfair though0
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Unfair - maybe. Nothing you can do. It will go up and be reflected in your next fortnightly pay.0
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The new pay period didn't start on the 1st, it was on the 6th, so you've not lost as much as you first thought.0
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PasturesNew wrote: »The new pay period didn't start on the 1st, it was on the 6th, so you've not lost as much as you first thought.
New NMW was effective from the 1st, bizarre when the tax year starts on the 6th...0 -
New NMW was effective from the 1st, bizarre when the tax year starts on the 6th...
Possibly for this very reason as monthly pay periods starting on the 1st are a common choice. If NMW went up on the 6th people on that pay pattern wouldn't get it until May.But a banker, engaged at enormous expense,Had the whole of their cash in his care.
Lewis Carroll0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »The new pay period didn't start on the 1st, it was on the 6th, so you've not lost as much as you first thought.
Its the pay reference period that is relevant for NMW, ie the period worked in order to receive a wage payment, rather than the PAYE period. For example where I work we pay monthly and calculate pay from 26th of the month to 25th of the following month, which is our pay reference period.
Based on that we could have delayed paying the minimum wage increase until the wage payment for the month up to 25th May, but have voluntarily decided to pay the increase in the wages we will pay on 25th April.0
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