the uk national minimum wage started on 1 april 1999.
the uk national minimum wage started on 1 april 1999.
when did the uk national minimum wage start?
1 april 1999
instead the wages act 1986 reformed the wages councils and abolished the power to create new ones.









































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a national minimum wage (nmw) was introduced for the first time by the labour government on 1 april 1999 at the rate of £3.60 per hour for those workers aged 22 and over, labour having promised to set a minimum wage in their 1997 general election campaign. in its election manifesto, it had said that every other modern industrial country had already adopted a minimum wage.
minimum wage law
municipal regulation of wage levels began in some towns in the united kingdom in 1524. national minimum wage law began with the trade boards act 1909, and the wages councils act 1945 set minimum wage standards in many sectors of the economy. wages councils were abolished in 1993 and subsequently replaced with a single statutory national minimum wage by the national minimum wage act 1998, which is still in force. the rates are reviewed each year by the country's low pay commission. from 1 april 2016 the minimum wage has been paid as a mandatory national living wage for workers over 25. it is being phased in between 2016 and 2020 and is set at a significantly higher level than previous minimum wage rates. by 2020 it is expected to have risen to at least £9 per hour and represent a full-time annual pay equivalent to 60% of the median uk earnings. the national living wage is nevertheless lower than the value of the living wage calculated by the living wage foundation. some organisations voluntarily pay a living wage to their staff, at a level somewhat higher than the statutory level. from september 2014 all nhs wales staff have been paid a minimum of the "living wage" recommended by the living wage commission. about 2,400 employees received an initial salary increase of up to £470 above the uk-wide agenda for change rates.
living wage