Main (adult) rate for workers aged 21 and over: £5.93 per hour from 1 October 2010. This increases to £6.08 on 1st October 2011.
Development rate for workers aged 18-20 inclusive: £4.92 per hour from 1 October 2009. £4.98 from 1st October 2011.
NB: The development rate can also apply to workers aged 21 and above during their first 6 months in a new job with a new employer and who are receiving accredited training.
16
and 17 year olds: £3.64 per hour from
1 October 2010, increasing to £3.68 on 1st October 2011.
NB: 16 and 17 year old apprentices will be exempt from the new young
workers rate.
The apprentice rate for apprentices under 19 or 19 or over and in the first year of the apprenticeship was £2.50 from 1st October 2010 and increases to £2.60 on 1st October 2011.
Fair Piece Rates: From October 2004, the Government is proposing that employers will have to pay their workers the minimum wage for every hour they work or a fair piece rate initially set at 100% of the minimum wage. The rate will increase to 120% of the minimum wage in April 2005 at which point most homeworkers will receive the minimum wage.
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