Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 5 September 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps he will take to ensure that workers in the (a) construction, (b) care home, (c) cleaning, (d) hospitality and (e) catering sectors are paid at hourly rates at or above the national minimum wage; and whether the Employment Law review is to make recommendations in this area.
The Government supports the National Minimum Wage (NMW) because of the protection it gives low income workers and the incentives to work it provides. HM Revenue and Customs investigate all complaints made to them and have also recently conducted targeted enforcement in the hotel cleaning and hospitality sectors. As part of the wider employment law review, a review of workplace rights enforcement and compliance is currently being undertaken. The review will consider NMW enforcement, together with other Government enforced workplace rights, to establish what scope there is to streamline them and make them more effective.
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