National Minimum Wage (NMW)

With extensive experience in the crossover between employment, contract and tax law, our barristers are well placed to advise on matters concerning employee remuneration, including the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage.  

Areas of experience concern issues arising under the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 and the National Minimum Wage Regulations 1999 and 2015, including, but not limited to: 

  • salary sacrifice 
  • remuneration counting 
  • reductions from payments 
  • enforcement notices 
  • time work 
  • salaried hours work 
  • unmeasured work 
  • apprentices and apprenticeship agreements 
  • uniforms  
  • the gig economy 
  • travelling, subsistence and accommodation, and sleep-ins 
  • training 
  • burden of proof in enforcement 
  • penalties and penalty caps 
  • criminal prosecutions 
  • “naming and shaming"  
Related Expertise

Barristers with Expertise in this area

King’s Counsel
Akash Nawbatt KC

Silk 2017 | Call 1999
Claire Darwin KC

Silk 2023 | Call 2005
Christopher Stone KC

Silk 2024 | Call 2007

Junior Counsel
Kate Balmer

Call 2009
Sebastian Purnell

Call 2010
Matthew Sellwood

Call 2013
Marianne Tutin

Call 2013
Sam Way

Call 2016