Department for Business and Trade written question – answered on 31 May 2023.
Olivia Blake
Labour, Sheffield, Hallam
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she is taking steps to ensure that the National Minimum Wage applies to all staff on vessels working from UK ports in the supply chains of offshore wind farms in the UK Exclusive Economic Zone.
Kevin Hollinrake
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
National Minimum Wage (NMW) legislation applies to those who work or ordinarily work in the UK, as well as to some workers on UK-registered ships. We have a proud record of extending the NMW to seafarers.
In October 2020, legislation came into force to extend the minimum wage to all seafarers on domestic voyages in the UK territorial sea or UK section of the continental shelf.
Yes3 people think so
No1 person thinks not
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