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Industrial Law Journal 1999 28(2):171-182; doi:10.1093/ilj/28.2.171
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Implementing the national minimum wage - the 1999 regulations

B Simpson

London School of Economics, London, UK

Following the article published in the March issue of the Journal, which analysed the National Minimum Wage Act and the draft National Minimum Wage Regulations, which the government put out for consultation in September, the author now updates that article by analysing the two sets of Regulations which the government has in fact produced. The first is the final version of the National Minimum Wage Regulations; the second is the National Minimum Wage Act (Amendment) Regulations. Between them, the regulations significantly alter the impact of the Act. This is done in three main ways. First, certain groups of workers are either excluded from the Act altogether (au pairs, family members working in a family business) or have the Act applied to them in a modified way. Second, the definition of working time has been amended, principally by introducing a fourth type of working time, 'salaried hours work'. Finally, the enforcement provisions of the Act have been diluted, by relieving the employer of the obligation to provide the employee with a minimum wage statement and by reducing the record-keeping obligations of the employer.


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