Dear Colleague, Increase in the National Minimum Wage from October 2008 RMT members should be made aware that the National Minimum Wage (NMW) is to increase as of today (1st October 2008). The adult rate will increase by 21p to £5.73 per hour. Current and past adult and youth NMW rates are set out...

Republican frontrunner wants to see US minimum wage raised from $7.25 per hour by having it indexed to inflation

Did you see that the group representing small and medium businesses in Ireland has said that trade union calls for an increase to the minimum wage is out of touch with economic reality? ISME says the Irish Congress of Trade Unions demand for a €1 increase in the national minimum wage will lead to thousands of job losses.  Chief Executive Mark Fielding said it is ridiculous at a time ...

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the minimum wage, introduced by the Labour government and opposed by many of today's Tories who claim to be on the side of working families. If you visit "target="_blank">here you can see the dramatic difference the minimum wage makes each day. Neatly coinciding with this year's anniversary is an increase in holiday leave for all workers in Britain. EU law

Today the Low Pay Commission have published their recommendations for the national minimum wage - and the Government have responded. Against powerful and sustained business lobbying the LPC have recommended increases, though incredibly 'modest'. The increases are a disappointment but the increase...

Is the best way to slow recent rises in youth unemployment to increase the national minimum wage to make them even less attractive to potential employers!?!"Under pressure from the unions Labour has agreed to extend the adult minimum wage to 21-year-olds. At the moment the full minimum wage of £5.52 applies only to workers aged 22 and over. Those aged between 18 and 21 get £4.60 and 16 to 18-year-...

How predictable. There have not only been calls to freeze the minimum wage, but also to allow businesses to pay their employees less than the minimum wage because of current economic problems. My blood pressure was going through the roof yesterday when I heard a UKIP politician on Radio 2 calling for businesses to be allowed to pay below the National Minimum Wage! So, the cause of the current rece...

The Minimum Wage was undoubtedly one of the best achievements of the Labour Government when it first came to power. No-one disputes that. But the latest- derisory - increase of between 4 pence and 7 pence an hour is frankly an insult to working-class people. At a time when billions of pounds have been poured into bailing out the banks and their friends in the City, at a time when Cabinet Ministers...

Almost one million people are set to benefit from plans to increase the national minimum wage.

Vale of Clwyd AM, Ann Jones has tabled a Statement of Opinion at the Assembly marking the 10th Anniversary of the National Minimum Wage. Labour’s groundbreaking introduction of the minimum wage has been a major step in overcoming poverty and ending the tyranny of low pay. When the National Minimum Wage came into being, wages of as little as £1.20 an hour were common and legal – t...