At the Low Pay Commission (LPC), we do a lot of work to monitor trends in the low-paid labour market. Each year, we talk to employers and workers across a range of sectors, as well as producing bespoke analysis on …
As set out in our previous blog, we recently published two research projects which we commissioned for our 2021 Report, and which use innovative approaches and data sources to shed further light on the impact of higher minimum wages on …
We have long been concerned with understanding the minimum wage’s impact on different groups of workers. Since 2021, the Government has formally specified this requirement in our remit, asking us "to gather particular evidence on groups of low paid workers …
In 2019, the LPC recommended that workers should become entitled to the National Living Wage (NLW, the highest rate of the minimum wage) at the age of 21 instead of 25. In April 2021, as the first step to achieving …
In its 2022 Report, the Low Pay Commission completed a review of the Accommodation Offset. This blog sets out a digested version of our conclusions and recommendations. What is the Accommodation Offset? How does it work? The offset comes into …
In March 2021, the Supreme Court issued the final judgement on a case of great significance for care providers and low-paid care workers. The case in question, Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake, was first brought to an Employment Tribunal in …
The LPC is seeking evidence on the experiences of low-paid workers from ethnic minority backgrounds. Contact us if you want to provide evidence. Alongside the usual work of monitoring the minimum wage and recommending next year’s rates, the Government’s 2021 …
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs https://www.flickr.com/people/nootch/ The Low Pay Commission does not have a direct remit when it comes to compliance with the NMW; direct enforcement falls to HMRC on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), …
At the Low Pay Commission, when we think about geography, we typically think about it in terms of workplace location – i.e. the region, local authority or constituency where individuals work. This is the variable we use for local measures …
This question is fundamental to the LPC’s work and is at the centre of our research programme each year. In 2019, we commissioned an econometric project from the Institute for Employment Studies (IES)[1] to look at just this. This work …
