The Minimum Wage Handbook: A Guide to the UK’s Wage Legislation That Explains How Low Paid Workers Can Exercise Their Rights

This book is one of those in the excellent series of practical guides to unemployment and training benefits published by Unemployment Unit and Youthaid, an independent campaigning company financed by local authorities, trusts, unions, and other bodies. Although this particular volume was produced by the Scottish Low Pay Unit, the information it contains does apply throughout the UK ‐ a fact that could have been made more explicit. It is based on the 1998 National Minimum Wages Act, related regulations and DTI guidance notes, and forms a useful reference text for all those calculating minimum wage entitlements, measuring hours worked...