Workplace Report (April 2001)

Features: Law at Work

Minimum wage

An employer can include whatever is paid as an attendance allowance within the calculation of hourly pay in making up the national minimum wage. However, doing this opens up the possibility of the employee taking a claim for unlawful deduction from wages.

(Laird v AK Stoddart 834/00)

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