NMWM13150 - Issuing Notices of Underpayment: relevant day for workers named on a notice
Relevant legislation
The importance of the relevant day
Relevant legislation
The legislation that applies to this page is as follows:
- National Minimum Wage Act 1998, section 19
Each worker named on a Notice of Underpayment has a relevant day in respect of their period of arrears (NMWM13160). The relevant day is one pay reference period and a day after the end of the last pay reference period for which arrears are identified for that worker.
The relevant day for each worker must be shown on the Notice of Underpayment. It can be different for individual workers named on the same notice.
The importance of the relevant day
The relevant day is important because it marks a point in time when arrears were known to be outstanding for a worker. It therefore influences the amount of:
- the underpayment and arrears owed to each worker; and
- the total underpayment and arrears for all workers named on a notice; and
- the penalty the employer must pay.