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    The National Minimum Wage Act 1998 (c. 39) creates a minimum wage across the United Kingdom. From 1 April 2024, the minimum wage is £11.44 per hour for...
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    States, the minimum wage is set by U.S. labor law and a range of state and local laws. The first federal minimum wage was instituted in the National Industrial...
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  • Living Wage is implemented via an amendment to the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. The National Living Wage was phased in between April 2016 and April 2020...
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  • New Zealand enacted the first national minimum wage laws in 1894 by the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, which, unlike the wages board of...
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  • monetary standard for pay at work. A recent example was the U.K. National Minimum Wage Act 1998. Germany is currently debating whether to introduce its own...
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  • A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their employees—the price floor below which employees may not sell their labor...
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  • NMW may refer to: National Minimum Wage Act 1998, UK National Museum Wales Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna (Wien), Austria National Museum, Warsaw This...
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    A living wage is defined as the minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs. This is not the same as a subsistence wage, which refers...
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  • determined by the statutory national minimum wage set up by regulations made under the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. The rates are reviewed each year by...
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    Minimum Wage Act on December 31, 1986. The Minimum Wage System began on January 1, 1988. At this time the economy was booming, and the minimum wage set...
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    The Minimum Wage Fairness Act (S. 1737) is a bill that would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to increase the federal minimum wage for...
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  • The Minimum Wages Act 1948 is an act of parliament concerning Indian labour law that sets the minimum wages that must be paid to skilled and unskilled...
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  • specific wage restrictions were held to be unconstitutional. The country's Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 established a uniform national minimum wage for...
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    The National Minimum Wage (Enforcement Notices) Act 2003 (c 8) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The whole Act was repealed on 6 April...
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    over-23-year-olds from April 2023 under the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. The Working Time Regulations 1998 give the right to 28 days paid holidays, breaks...
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    interpretation of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. It concerns the extent to which an employer may make deductions from a worker's basic wage entitlement for...
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  • Lawson [2000] EWCA Civ 69 is a UK labour law case regarding the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 and who is/is not included; it also considered whether a pupil...
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  • [2006] IRLR 514 (EAT) is a UK labour law case regarding the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. McCartney was a resident manager at Oversley House, which was...
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    minimum wage criteria that were legally enforceable. It was expanded and updated in the Trade Boards Act 1918. The main provision was to set minimum wages...
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    UK labour law case regarding the treatment of tips under the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. It led to the abolition of tips being considered part of wages...
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    According to section 45(1) of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998, prisoners are excluded from the national minimum wage. Penal servitude was abolished for...
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    protection to workers who are employed in their own homes. The UK's National Minimum Wage Act 1998 makes specific reference to home workers who "contract with...
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    would not accept a national minimum wage. Finally, with the return of Labour, the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 set a minimum of £3.60 per hour, with lower...
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    examples of wage payments include compensatory payments such as minimum wage, prevailing wage, and yearly bonuses, and remunerative payments such as prizes...
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  • National Minimum Wage Act 1998 provides that in a contract between a worker and their employer, the worker must be paid according to a minimum wage set...
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  • self-employed individuals, and are entitled to the minimum wage under the National Minimum Wage Act 1998, paid holiday, and other normal worker entitlements...
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    Wright [2002] ScotCS 285 is a UK labour law case regarding the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. Mr Wright was a night watchman and was required to work seven...
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    Low Pay Commission (category Minimum wage law)
    legislation by the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. Each year, the LPC advises the government on what rates the different minimum wages in the UK should...
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  • the United Kingdom on the definition of a worker under the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. The Employment Appeal Tribunal held that lack of "mutuality...
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  • National Minimum Wage Act 1998, workers operating under a zero-hour contract on stand-by time, on-call time, and downtime must be paid the national minimum...
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