For the NMW Guide:
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From 6 April 2009, there is a new penalty for employers who pay workers below the national minimum wage and a new method of working out arrears owing to those employees. Employers who do not pay the minimum wage could be faced with an automatic fine of up to £5,000, while serious offenders could receive an unlimited fine. HM Revenue and Customs compliance officers get extra powers to carry out their investigations into breaches of the law on the national minimum wage.
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The new method of calculating arrears means that employers have to pay any past wages owing to underpaid workers at the current minimum wage rates, not the rates when the workers were underpaid, if these are higher. Any employer who underpays after 6 April 2009 will also be subject to a fine of 50 per cent of the total amount underpaid; the fine has a minimum level of £100 and a maximum of £5,000. So the the Act also gives HMRC compliance officer’s new inspection powers and strengthens the criminal regime for national minimum wage offences. Further details at:
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Remember, if you have/do work for a commercial outfit for expenses only, then you still have a right - to then ask them to pay you at least the NMW, even after you have worked for them. You have up to 3 months after the work was done, to make a claim, click: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/nmw/complaint.htm
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If you have information about an employer that is not paying the minimum wage and you do not work for them, or have not previously worked for that employer, you can still make a complaint, by completing this on online complaint form, click: https://online.hmrc.gov.uk/shortforms/form/NMW_TPWorker?dept-name=NMW&sub-dept-name=Complaints&location=25&origin=http
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Completion of personal details on this form is not compulsory.
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Actors are classified as 'workers' under National Minimum Wage Regulations (NMW), but in reality they have no right to the NMW, when working through an employment agency. Five years of lobbying the Department of Trade & Industry (BERR) has had no effect.
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Act like a mug and you will be treated like a mug! - Stage 2Jul09
LPC Commission Submission Clive Hurst 6Oct08
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Low Pay Commission Report 7Mar07Highlighted in this report is the fact that agencies are denying Walk-On Actors the right to the National Minimum Wage (NMW), by offering them just one days work and then taking most, if not all their wages, in agency fees...
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The Low Pay Commission states that unless fines are imposed and employers are 'named and shamed' then employers will continue to flout NMW Regulations...
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Which is exactly what is happening under DTI Employment Agency Standards (EAS) Regulations, where agencies can do exactly what they like; the DTI will not penalise wrongdoers!
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There has never been a prosecution by the DTI EAS against any agency, for taking money under false pretences. Why?
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Click abbreviated report: Low Pay Report07
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Click 389 page - full report: LPC PDF 7Mar07
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Low Pay Commission Submission Clive Hurst 6Oct08
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BBC-backed comedy overlooks NMW - Stage 17Sep08
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Free Lunch? BBC Radio Coventry 10Sep08
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Endemol UK plc – ‘One & Only’ - work for free? Stage 4Mar08.
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Graham Norton - offers NO wages! - Daily Mail 12Jan08
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BBC Working Lunch - NMW 18Feb03
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ITV & BBC Break NMW 8Feb07
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National Minimum Wage Act
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What exactly is it going to to take, to get the DTI (BERR) to give actors the right to the NMW, when working through an employment agency?
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See my main website: www.anactor.net
