Impact assessment

National minimum wage: power to set the financial penalty on a per worker basis

Assessing the impact of applying the national minimum wage financial penalty on a per worker basis.

• From: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
• Published: 13 June 2014
• Last updated: 31 October 2014 — See all updates

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

National minimum wage: power to set the financial penalty on a per worker basis: impact assessment

Ref: BIS/14/1182

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Details

The government wants to increase the maximum penalties that can be imposed on employers that underpay their workers in breach of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) legislation.

The increase in the penalty is intended to ensure that workers are correctly paid by deterring employers from underpaying them.

The impact assessment (IA) examines the impact of applying the financial penalty on a per worker basis.

The IA has been revised, and now only concentrates on businesses that are non-compliant with NMW legislation. The original IA showed an annual cost of £2.58 million to businesses. The revised IA shows no cost to compliant businesses and an average annual benefit to the Treasury of £2.15 million.

Published 13 June 2014
Last updated 31 October 2014 + show all updates

1. 31 October 2014

   Revised impact assessment added, which now concentrates on businesses that are non-compliant with NMW legislation.

2. 13 June 2014

   First published.