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answering dept id	201
answer date	2020-02-27
registered interest	false
hansard heading	Unpaid Work

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24/02/2020

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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

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25259

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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 24 February 2020 to Question 1951, whether his Department's definition of unpaid working time includes unpaid work trials.

tabling member constituency

Glasgow South

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Stewart Malcolm McDonald

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20014

answer

is ministerial correction

date of answer

27/02/2020

answer text

The Government is clear that anyone entitled to be paid the National Minimum Wage (NMW) or National Living Wage (NLW) should receive it. We are committed to cracking down on employers who fail to pay the NMW/NLW. It is important to ensure that all working time is considered for minimum wage purposes. Employers are responsible for recognising and recording all working time for their workers. However, not all time constitutes working time. Government guidance entitled Calculating the Minimum Wage provides further information. A work trial that it is for recruitment purposes and that it is reasonable and not of excessive duration would probably not constitute “work” under a worker’s contract. An unpaid trial lasting more than one day is probably illegal in all but exceptional circumstances and would therefore entitle the individual to be paid at least the minimum wage.

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Sutton and Cheam

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Paul Scully

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27/02/2020 09:30:55

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4414

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4461

label	Biography information for Stewart Malcolm McDonald