Low Pay Commission to Consider
Small Businesses
The Low Pay Commission (LPC) has
been advised to consider the impact of any increase
in the national minimum wage on small businesses,
which is a change to the current remit of their
considerations. The government has told the LPC
that it must look carefully at the impact the
decision will have and to make ‘particular
reference to the effect on pay, employment and
competitiveness in the low paying sectors and
small firms’.
The current limit of £5.05 an hour, for
workers over the age of 22, will rise to £5.35
in October.
Internet links:
Telegraph
article and Government
announcement and National Minimum Wage rates
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