60 h. ago How 1million will pay tax for the first time if Budget raid goes ahead – min wage and pensioners will be hit hardest

A MILLION extra people will be dragged into paying income tax if Rachel Reeves presses ahead with a punishing stealth rise, a new report reveals. Pensioners and minimum wage earners face being hit by tax thresholds being frozen for a further two years to help balance the books. Income tax thresholds are frozen until 2028, so...

Economics

8 d. ago How millions of workers on minimum wage can get secret extra pay rise worth £277k – anyone above 22 can do it

MILLIONS of minimum wage workers could bag an additional secret pay rise, the Sun can reveal. With the minimum wage set to increase, workers can get extra cash from employer by boosting their retirement income. Anyone aged between 22 and state pension age, who earns more than £10,000 a year with a single company is automatically signed...

Economics

1 week ago Nigel Farage blasted with brutal PMQs question after earning £1m from second jobs

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was blasted in Prime Minister's Questions for raking in cash from extra jobs - while criticising the minimum wage for youngsters

Economics

1 week ago Nigel Farage suggests young people on minimum wage earn too much

Reform UK leader also predicted a general election within the next two years, as a consequence of Rachel Reeves’ ‘austerity Budget’

Politics

1 week ago 'Please don't hit us again': Cinema chain boss pleads with Chancellor ahead of Budget tax blizzard

Tim Richards, of Vue, warned of a 'difficult operating environment' as firms face grapple with high energy costs, the increase in the minimum wage and the Chancellor's national insurance tax raid.

Economics

1 week ago City bosses warn on pay as UK minimum wage closes in on graduate salaries

Chief executives voice fears about impact on recruitment ahead of expected rise in Budget

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2 w. ago The jobs bloodbath is coming, says City guru ALEX BRUMMER. Rachel Reeves' insane plans make it a certainty. We're on the road to ruin

The warnings from business leaders have simply been ignored. Rachel Reeves appears certain to go ahead with her plan to increase the minimum wage, come what may.

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2 w. ago Rachel Reeves is ignoring all the experts and pressing ahead with her insane wages plan. This is why it's going to trigger a jobs bloodbath: ALEX BRUMMER

The warnings from business leaders have simply been ignored. Rachel Reeves appears certain to go ahead with her plan to increase the minimum wage, come what may.

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3 w. ago Rachel Reeves set to 'price jobs out of existence' by upping minimum wage for more than a million workers in Budget, struggling business leaders warn

Rachel Reeves looks set to pile more pressure on already struggling businesses by upping the national living wage by an expected 4%'.

Economics

3 w. ago Welsh business pocketed £66,000 instead of paying staff minimum wage, and it wasn't the only one

The UK Government has named nine businesses in Wales made to repay their staff in full and pay hefty fines

Economics

3 w. ago All the north London firms named and shamed for not paying the National Minimum Wage

All the north London firms named and shamed for not paying the National Minimum Wage  Ham & High

Economics

3 w. ago Full list of companies fined for failing to pay National Minimum Wage

Around 42,000 workers have been repaid by their employers after missing out on the National Minimum Wage

Events

3 w. ago Pay boost for half a million workers as real living wage to rise

Workers on the voluntary rate of pay are set for a boost of up to £5,000

Economics

3 w. ago One million young Brits set to be out of work or education for first time in more than a decade

A MILLION young people are set to be out of work or education for the first time in more than a decade, a study says. Ministers are now under pressure to abandon plans to raise minimum wage levels for the under-21s to get youngsters back into the workplace. The Resolution Foundation warned the government should...

Economics

3 w. ago People in work urged to check wages as thousands of employees get back payments

Some £6 million has been repaid to workers as the UK Government cracks down on employers underpaying their staff.

Economics

4 w. ago Council among London employers fined £1.6m after 7,400 paid less than minimum wage

Council among London employers fined £1.6m after 7,400 paid less than minimum wage  London Evening Standard

Economics

4 w. ago Over 65 London employers including a council fined £1.6m after 7,400 workers paid less than minimum wage

London firms have been fined £1.6million and told to backpay thousands of workers after failing to pay the National Minimum Wage

Economics

4 w. ago More than 65 London employers including a council fined £1.6m after 7,400 workers paid less than minimum wage

London firms have been fined £1.6million and told to backpay thousands of workers after failing to pay the National Minimum Wage

Economics

last month Full list of almost 500 companies fined for failing to pay workers National Minimum Wage

Around 42,000 affected workers have been repaid as Business Secretary Peter Kyle blasted 'rogue employers'

Economics

last month Full list of 491 companies fined for failing to pay National Minimum Wage

Around 42,000 workers have been repaid by their employers after missing out on the National Minimum Wage

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