The Low Pay Commission (LPC) have just published their 17th Low Pay Commission (LPC) report and it is 339 pages long.
Of interest to employers are the rates being recommended by the LPC and these are:
Whilst the rates are recommended and cannot be confirmed absolutely, we understand that the government has accepted the rates for workers under 25 and apprentices to apply from 1 October 2016.
The government has also confirmed that it will be aligning the cycle of the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage from April 2017. This means that the recommendations will last 6 months rather than the usual 12. As a consequence, the LPC will be making further recommendations in the Autumn on the level of all minimum wage rates (including the National Living Wage) from April 2017. To inform the next recommendations, the LPC will be consulting again in the Spring.
