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min date	2018-11-02
answer › date of answer	2018-11-20
registered interest	false
hansard heading	Unpaid Work: Conditions of Employment

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13/11/2018

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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

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201

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Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

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Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

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Unpaid Work: Conditions of Employment

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25259

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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make it his policy to ensure that people who are asked to complete work trials at the outset of employment are classed as workers.

tabling member constituency

Glasgow South

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Stewart Malcolm McDonald

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190917

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is ministerial correction

date of answer

20/11/2018

answer text

Individuals on work trials who are asked to complete work for an employer are likely to be classed as ‘workers’ and are entitled to the National Minimum Wage. Work trials may only be unpaid if they are part of a genuine recruitment exercise. An unpaid trial work period lasting a few hours may be reasonable and legal, but an unpaid work trial lasting more than one day is probably excessive and therefore illegal in all but exceptional circumstances. The Government has consulted with employers and trade unions on how to ensure greater clarity and better practice over work trials. We have just finalised new guidance that will be published in due course.

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Rochester and Strood

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Kelly Tolhurst

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190918
190919

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20/11/2018 08:49:26

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4487

label	Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst

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4461

label	Biography information for Stewart Malcolm McDonald