This letter should be sent to an employee to advise them of an increase in pay because following their birthday they have moved into a different age band of the National Minimum or Living Wage.

 

This letter can also be used where an apprentice who is 19 or over moves from the first to the second year of their apprenticeship, to let them now they are moving off the apprentice pay band and onto the one appropriate for their age. 

This letter can be used to inform employees that their pay is increasing due to an increase in the NLW / NMW. 

This letter should be sent to an employee to advise them that to comply with minimum wage law they will be paid a mean hourly output rate and to advise them what this rate will be for each piece or task. The letter also informs the employee that they can obtain advice from the Acas helpline.

This document describes the process of calculating a fair piece rate for output workers in relation to the national minimum wage.