Minimum wage
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The minimum wage rose from £5.93 per hour to £6.08 on Saturday, an increase of 2.5%. The minimum wage is decided each year by the Low Pay Committee (LPC). It was introduced in 1999 at £3.60 an hour for adults.
Posted: 03 October 2011 | 10:57
What was your first job in catering? Kitchen porter in a local hotel then promoted to the giddy heights of a YTS chef on £28 a week What do...
Posted: 04 March 2011 | 12:46
If you're tempted to breach minimum wage legislation, beware - you could now be named and shamed. Legal expert Nicola McMahon explains.
Posted: 18 February 2011 | 15:20
The TUC will tell the Low Pay Commission (LPC) to recommend raising the adult national minimum wage next year by 21p to £6.14 an hour when the two organisations meet on 1 November. The TUC will put the case to the LPC, which advises the Government on the minimum wage.
Posted: 29 October 2010 | 12:43
The Government has unveiled plans to name and shame companies that pay workers below the minimum wage, as the new rates for the national minimum wage come into effect...
Posted: 04 October 2010 | 14:20
The Government has unveiled plans to name and shame companies that pay workers below the minimum wage, as the new rates for the national minimum wage come into effect. Employment relations minister Edward Davey (pictured) told employers that they would have three months to put their houses in order.
Posted: 30 September 2010 | 14:38
No one could ever claim that to choose a career in hospitality is to take an easy option. It's no secret that the hours can be long, the pressures great...
Posted: 09 July 2010 | 14:47
Thirteen room attendants working at a five-star London hotel have won back pay and damages after it emerged they were being paid below the minimum wage. Last July a joint investigation by the BBC's Newsnight and PM programmes revealed how contract cleaning company Hotelcare...
Posted: 29 June 2010 | 15:07
Topics covered in our weekly briefing include: government gets tough on minimum wage offenders; fewer jobless than expected; and workers want to move around.
Posted: 22 January 2010 | 14:39
The Government has created a team to crack down on employers who continually refuse to pay their workers the National Minimum Wage (NMW). The hospitality industry is a persistent offender when it comes to underpaying staff, with HM Revenue and Customs' (HMRC) recouping more than £640,000...
Posted: 05 January 2010 | 14:11
Topics covered in our weekly briefing include:New Year's Eve VAT hangover could cost businesses dearly; and free customer service and marketing masterclasses.
Posted: 18 December 2009 | 13:57
Higher pay awards confidence; employment rights unknown; and bad customer service deterrent.
Posted: 06 November 2009 | 12:33
Topics covered in our weekly briefing: minimum wage increase; sickness absence to decline.
Posted: 09 October 2009 | 17:59
The issue of tips in restaurants has been thrust back into the public consciousness with the launch of the Independent’s fair tips campaign and continuation of the Daily Mirror backed Unite union’s call for fair tips.
Posted: 15 September 2009 | 18:47
Every week in the Caterer poll the industry delivers its verdict on the big stories of the day. Kerstin Kühn rounds up the results of the last six months.
Posted: 21 August 2009 | 10:15
The British Hospitality Association has urged restaurants to be open with customers in its first code of practice on discretionary tips and service charges.
The code, produced in conjunction with the Department for Business and issued this week, urges restaurants and hotels ...
Posted: 20 July 2009 | 17:32
I'm starting with the man in the mirror; I'm asking him to change his ways; And no message could have been any clearer; If you wanna make the world a better place; Take a look at yourself and then make a change.
Posted: 26 June 2009 | 15:18
London Mayor Boris Johnson has called on hospitality operators in the capital to pay the London Living Wage.
Speaking at the British Hospitality Association (BHA) Annual Lunch held at the Grosvenor House hotel on Park Lane, the mayor made the case for adopting the wage in front of an audience ...
Posted: 26 June 2009 | 07:30
The British Hospitality Association (BHA) is urging all restaurants to adopt a new Code of Practice on how to distribute service charges. The Code has been developed in conjunction with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to back up new legislation banning ...
Posted: 25 June 2009 | 18:11
London Citizens and the Unite union are to protest later today outside the British Hospitality Association’s (BHA) Annual Luncheon against hospitality operators’ refusal to adopt the London Living Wage. London Mayor Boris Johnson will urge those at the lunch to voluntarily adopt the wage ...
Posted: 24 June 2009 | 07:00
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