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Research into one-sided flexibility

Every year, the LPC commissions and publishes a range of independent research projects to build our evidence base and understanding of the labour market and low pay. Today, we’re publishing two of the...

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Coming soon to a town near you…: the LPC visit programme 2020

UPDATE - 17 March 2020 In view of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, and the recent advice to avoid all non-essential travel, we are suspending the Low Pay Commission’s programme of visits for 2020....

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A tale of two (similar) cities: the impact of the minimum wage on retail and...

How have employers in the retail and hospitality sectors responded to the National Living Wage (NLW)? Last year researchers from Sheffield University Management School's Centre for Decent Work (Dragoș...

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Has the National Living Wage affected jobs and hours?

This question is fundamental to the LPC’s work and is at the centre of our research programme each year. In 2019, we commissioned an econometric project from the Institute for Employment Studies...

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Minimum wage coverage: where you work versus where you live

At the Low Pay Commission, when we think about geography, we typically think about it in terms of workplace location – i.e. the region, local authority or constituency where individuals work. This is...

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Non-compliance in Leicester

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs https://www.flickr.com/people/nootch/ The Low Pay Commission does not have a direct remit when it comes to compliance with the NMW; direct...

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Low pay and ethnicity

The LPC is seeking evidence on the experiences of low-paid workers from ethnic minority backgrounds. Contact us if you want to provide evidence. Alongside the usual work of monitoring the minimum wage...

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Sleep-in shifts in social care

In March 2021, the Supreme Court issued the final judgement on a case of great significance for care providers and low-paid care workers. The case in question, Royal Mencap Society v Tomlinson-Blake,...

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Reviewing the Accommodation Offset

In its 2022 Report, the Low Pay Commission completed a review of the Accommodation Offset. This blog sets out a digested version of our conclusions and recommendations. What is the Accommodation...

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Reducing the age of entitlement for the NLW

In 2019, the LPC recommended that workers should become entitled to the National Living Wage (NLW, the highest rate of the minimum wage) at the age of 21 instead of 25. In April 2021, as the first step...

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The NLW and protected characteristics: Living wages and ethnic pay gaps

We have long been concerned with understanding the minimum wage’s impact on different groups of workers. Since 2021, the Government has formally specified this requirement in our remit, asking us "to...

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The NLW and protected characteristics: differences in employment and minimum...

As set out in our previous blog, we recently published two research projects which we commissioned for our 2021 Report, and which use innovative approaches and data sources to shed further light on the...

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The LPC has updated its definitions of ‘low-paying sectors’

At the Low Pay Commission (LPC), we do a lot of work to monitor trends in the low-paid labour market. Each year, we talk to employers and workers across a range of sectors, as well as producing bespoke...

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