Employers are being asked whether additional information for National Minimum Wage (NMW) purposes should be included on payslips.
The Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) has been asked to give input into policy proposals that would see payslips include more detailed information, as defined in the National Minimum Wage Act.
According to the definition in the Act, certain hours (such as hours worked for holiday pay, or rest breaks for hourly-paid workers) and certain pay amounts (such as pay for premium pay uplift, holiday pay or pay for sick leave or maternity leave), would be excluded from hours or pay worked for NMW purposes respectively.
The policy proposals, that have been introduced by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, follow on from the Low Pay Commission’s recommendation that payslips should include the hours each worker is being paid for. The idea is to increase the transparency and information provided to workers about how their pay is calculated.
To inform its response, the CIPD has launched a short survey to identify the best way to implement this proposal, and to obtain an estimate of the business impacts and benefits.
The survey can be found here.
