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Chairman’s Foreword

The Commissioners

Executive Summary

Recommendations

List of Figures

List of Tables

1 Introduction

2 The Impact of the National Minimum Wage

3 The Effects of the National Minimum Wage on Specific Sectors and on Small Firms

4 Groups of Workers and Specific Enforcement Issues

5 Young People and Trainees


6 Compliance and Enforcement

7 Setting the Rates

Appendices

Abbreviations

Bibliography

 
 
National Minimum Wage
Low Pay Commission Report 2005
List of Tables


2.1 National Minimum Wage Hourly Rates, April 1999-October 2004

2.2 Jobs Paid Below the October 2003 National Minimum Wage by Gender and Hours of Work for Those Aged 18 and Over, UK, April 2004

2.3 Adults (Aged 22 and Over) Earning Below the Existing National Minimum Wage and the Forthcoming National Minimum Wage Rate, 1999-2004

2.4 Estimated Beneficiaries from the 2003 and 2004 Upratings Using the Earnings Assumption

2.5 Adult Minimum Wage as a Percentage of Various Gross Hourly Earnings (Excluding Overtime) Measures, All Employee Jobs, 1999-2004

2.6 Gross Hourly Pay Excluding Overtime by Region, All Employee Jobs, April 2004

2.7 Number of Employee Jobs by Sector, Great Britain, 1999-2004

2.8 Paid Overtime Hours: Percentage Who Worked Overtime and Their Median Hours, All Employee Jobs, UK, April 2004

2.9 Job Vacancies in Selected Industries, UK, 2001-2004

3.1 Percentage of Employees Aged 18 and Over Paid the Adult Minimum Wage or Below by Sector/Occupation, 2002-2004

4.1 Working Age Inactivity Rates, 1998-2004

4.2 Hourly Earnings of Men Working Full-time and Women Working Full-time and the Gender Pay Ratio, 1998-2004

4.3 Median Gross Hourly Earnings Excluding Overtime by Gender and Hours of Work, 1998-2004

4.4 Median Gross Hourly Pay Excluding Overtime by Work-limiting Disability for Employees Aged 18 and Over, 1998-2004

4.5 Median Hourly Pay by Ethnicity for Employees Aged 18 and Over, 1998-2004

4.6 Median Hourly Pay by Ethnicity for Male Employees Aged 18 and Over, 1998-2004

4.7 Median Hourly Pay by Ethnicity for Female Employees Aged 18 and Over, 1998-2004

5.1 Have the October 2003 Increases Made You More or Less Likely to Employ Workers in Different Age Groups?

5.2 Employees Aged 18-21 Earning Below the Youth Development Rate and the Adult Rate

5.3 Employees Aged 18-21 Earning Below the Forthcoming Youth Development Rate and the Adult Rate

5.4 Gross Hourly Earnings (Excluding Overtime) for Young People by Age, 2002-2004

5.5 Employees Aged 18-21 Earning Below the Adult Rate

6.1 National Minimum Wage: Enquiries and Complaints to the Inland Revenue and Enforcement Action Taken

6.2 Applications Registered by Employment Tribunals, Great Britain

7.1 Independent Forecasts of GDP Growth, Inflation and Average Earnings

7.2 Paid Leave Entitlement (Excluding Bank Holidays) for Working Age Employees by Hours, Autumn 2003

7.3 Paid Leave Entitlement (Excluding Bank Holidays) for Low-paid Working Age Employees by Hours, Autumn 2003

7.4 Government Savings from an Increase in the Adult National Minimum Wage, £ million, 2005/06

A2.1 Low Pay Commission Research Projects

A3.1 Responses to the Survey by Sector

A3.2 Number of Employees by Sector in the Sample

A3.3 Size Distribution of Firms by Sector

A3.4 Percentage of Firms Affected by the October 2003 Increases in the National Minimum Wage in Any Way

A3.5 Impact on Total Pay Bill for Those Affected by the October 2003 Increases in the National Minimum Wage

A3.6 Impact on Pay Rates for Those Affected by the October 2003 Increases in the National Minimum Wage

A3.7 Distribution of Highest Hourly Rate Increased

A3.8 Benefits to Business from the October 2003 Increases in the National Minimum Wage

A3.9 Changes Made by Firms as a Result of the October 2003 Increases in the National Minimum Wage

A3.10 Changes in Firms as a Result of the October 2003 Increases in the National Minimum Wage

A3.11 Impact of the National Minimum Wage on Incentive Systems in the Textiles Sector

A3.12 Firms with Age-related Pay Structures

A3.13 The Starting Age at Which Firms Pay Employees the Adult Rate of the Minimum Wage

A3.14 Percentage of Firms Using the Development Rate for Employees Aged 22 and Over

A3.15 Have the 2003 Increases in the National Minimum Wage Made You More or Less Likely to Employ Workers in Different Age Groups?

A3.16 Will the Introduction of a National Minimum Wage of £3.00 for 16 and 17 Year Olds in October 2004 Make You More or Less Likely to Employ Workers in Different Age Groups?

A3.17 Firms Employing Apprentices

A3.18 Percentage of Apprentices by Age Group

A4.1 Comparison of Level of Minimum Wages Across Countries, end 2004

A4.2 Adult Minimum Wages Relative to Full-time Median Earnings, Mid-2004

A4.3 Uprating of Minimum Wages

A4.4 Enforcement of Minimum Wages

A4.5 Age Variations Under Minimum Wage Systems

A4.6 Youth Minimum Wages as Percentage of Adult Minimum Rates, end 2004

A5.1 Trends in Employee Jobs in Low-paying Sectors, Thousands, 1998-2004

A5.2 Hourly Earnings for Employees Aged 18 and Over by Low-paying Sector, 2002-2004

A7.1 ONS Revised Estimates of Employee Jobs Paid Below the National Minimum Wage for Those Aged 18 and Over, Spring 1998-2003

A7.2 Comparison of Old and New ONS Methodology for Estimates of Employee Jobs Paid Below the National Minimum Wage for Those Aged 18 and Over, 1998-2003

 
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