National Minimum Wage

National Minimum Wage
4.122 Stakeholders have again raised concerns over the Government’s reduction in funding of
activities to raise awareness of the minimum wage. These concerns have been supported by
research findings for this report which indicate that there is a lack of awareness among some
employers. This is not good, either for workers who won’t get their entitlements or
employers who may inadvertently break the law. We would like to see the Government
restore its previous communication activities, and place its NMW communications outside
the restrictions of its marketing freeze.
4.123 In the next chapter we now set out the evidence received on future levels of the different
minimum wages and our recommendations to Government for these levels in October 2012.
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