{"id":128,"date":"2004-09-30T16:29:24","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T16:29:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-09-30T16:29:24","modified_gmt":"2004-09-30T16:29:24","slug":"before-you-ask-the-new-national-minimum-wage-rates-are-as-follows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Before you ask&#8230;.  The new National Minimum Wage rates are as follows:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Main (adult) rate for workers aged 22 and over<\/strong> <br \/>\u00a34.85 per hour from 1 October 2004 (an increase from \u00a34.50 an hour) <br \/><strong>Development rate for workers aged 18-21 inclusive<\/strong> <br \/>\u00a34.10 per hour from 1 October 2004 (an increase from \u00a33.80 an hour) NB: The development rate can also apply to workers aged 22 and above during their first 6 months in a new job with a new employer and who are receiving accredited training. <br \/><strong>A new rate for 16 and 17 year olds<\/strong> <br \/>The Government has accepted the Low Pay Commission&#8217;s recommendations for a new rate for 16 and 17 year olds (above compulsory school leaving age). \u00a33.00 per hour from 1 October 2004&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NB: 16 and 17 year old apprentices will be exempt from the new young workers rate. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dti.gov.uk\/er\/nmw\/index.htm\">DTI website here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Main (adult) rate for workers aged 22 and over \u00a34.85 per hour from 1 October 2004 (an increase from \u00a34.50 an hour) Development rate for workers aged 18-21 inclusive \u00a34.10 per hour from 1 October 2004 (an increase from \u00a33.80 an hour) NB: The development rate can also apply to workers aged 22 and above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}