New National Minimum Wage Rates announced; coming into force from 01 April 2021.
The National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2021 have been laid out. The draft Regulations are laid to increase the single, main hourly rate of the various minimum wage rates for each age group, as set out further below. They come into force on 1 April 2021.
The new Regulations and applicable rates from 01 April 2021 are as follows;
These draft Regulations are laid to amend the National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015, SI 2015/621, to:
• amend the age limits so that workers aged 23 or over will qualify for the national living wage rate, rather than a lower national minimum wage rate
• increase the rate of the national living wage for workers who are aged 23 or over from £8.72 to £8.91 per hour
• increase the rate of the national minimum wage for workers who are aged 21 or over (but not yet aged 23) from £8.20 to £8.36 per hour
• increase the rate of the national minimum wage for workers who are aged 18 or over (but not yet aged 21) from £6.45 to £6.56 per hour
• increase the rate of the national minimum wage for workers who are under the age of 18 from £4.55 to £4.62 per hour
• increase the rate for such workers from £4.15 to £4.30 per hour
• increase the accommodation offset amount which is applicable where any employer provides a worker with living accommodation from £8.20 to £8.36 for each day that accommodation is provided
• extend the period for which an employer must keep records sufficient to establish that the employer is remunerating the worker at a rate at least equal to the national minimum wage from three years to six years
These draft Regulations also provide that the extension applies to records made before this instrument comes into force if the employer was already required by regulation 59 to keep the records immediately prior to the instrument coming into force.
Read the Government legislation web page for these regulations, available here
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