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Homeworkers and the National Minimum Wage: Evidence from the Textiles and Clothing Industry. Jason Heyes and Alex Gray. Work, Employment and Society 2001 15: 4, 863-873 Download Citation. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click on download.
Piece work is a type of employment when workers are paid for the piece of work or task they do, for example making articles of clothing and getting paid a rate per piece of clothing produced. Although the working process is different, piece workers should still receive the appropriate National Minimum (or Living) Wage. Key points.
Now, it is not my intention to criticise the reasoning, but, assuming that the premisses are correct, to urge that it is not a sufficiently forcible argument against the policy of fixing a minimum wage. Your article accepts the fact that thousands of workers earn less than, or barely, a living wage, and is ready to admit that this state of things should be, if possible, rectified, but is not.
Millions of low-paid workers are set to see an increase in their wages as a new National Minimum Wage is introduced. The new rate of pay will come into effect on April 1, 2020, and will mark the.
Workers that are at least school leaving age are entitled to get the National Minimum Wage and those that are 25 or over get the National Living Wage. Workers are also entitled to the minimum wage if they're: part-time; casual labourers, for example someone hired for one day; agency workers; workers and homeworkers paid by the number of items.
What is minimum wage? National Minimum Wage is the minimum payment (per hour) you are entitled to earn in any industry. It is set by the government and all employers, regardless of size, are legally required to provide its workers with the agreed amount. If they don’t, it is considered as a criminal offence.
Furthermore, a minimum wage is often well below what is required for decent living standards and research indicates that many suppliers are not paying this legal minimum. The problem is complicated further when the millions of piece-rate workers and homeworkers within the industry are considered. When workers are paid for the number of garments.