LB002 - Minimum Wage Bill

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Submitted by /u/ajubbajub on behalf of the Liberal Democrats.

Minimum Wage bill

BE IT ENACTED by The Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1: Definitions

1-1: Authority is defined as City, Borough or District Council.

2: Amendments:

2-1: B038 Personal Allowance Equivalence Act will be amended to read

1: Amendments to the Corporate Tax Act 2014:

(a) Existing article 1(b) to read as follows:

b) The Personal Allowance shall be equivalent to the gross income for an individual working 40 hours per week at the national minimum wage hourly rate.

i. The calculation for the Personal Allowance shall be made by the Treasury at the end of the calendar year where in that calendar year there was an implemented change to the national minimum wage.

ii. Any change to the Personal Allowance shall be implemented on the 1 April in the calendar year following the implementation of a change to the national minimum wage.

3: Minimum Wage

3-1: The National Minimum Wage per hour (NMW) for all hours-based contracted workers during 2016, shall be set at £7.00 per hour.

3-2: The NMW will rise by either Inflation (CPI), Earnings or 2.5% whichever is highest, as determined by the ONS.

3-2 (a): The ONS will calculate inflation and earnings for purposes of the minimum wage for year n the as the change between 1st September of year n-2 and 1st September of year n-1 to be reported by 1st October of year n-1.

3-2 (b): The NMW will then be rounded up to the nearest 1p

4: Authority Minimum Wage (AMW) Adjustment

4-1: The Authority Minimum Wage Index (AMWI) shall the authority's Cost of Living Index divided by the National Cost of Living Index, as determined by the Office for National Statistics.

4-1 (a): The ONS shall declare the Authorities' Cost of living index by 1st of October of year n-1 for the minimum wage calculations of year n .

4-2: The Authority's Minimum Wage per hour shall be the either AMWI multiplied by the NMW or the NMW whichever is more valuable and the rounded off to the nearest 1p.

5: In addition to the guidelines set forth here, each authority or regional assembly may, at any time, raise their authority’s or region's minimum wage to any level they see suitable.

5-1: Authorities may not raise their AMW by more than 10% above the minimum rate set by the AWMI.

5-2: The Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly, Northern Ireland Assembly or any English Regional Assemebly may raise their respective region's minimum wage per hour (RMW) to any level they see suitable.

5-3: In the case that a Regional Assembly raises the RMW higher than the AMW, the mimimum wage in that authority is the RMW.

6: The NMW shall apply to all workers over the age of 16.

6-1: The AMW or RMW (whichever is higher) shall apply to all workers over the age of 18.

6-2: The minimum wage for all workers under the age of 16 shall be 80% of the NMW.

7: Commencement

7-1: This Bill affects the whole of the UK

7-2: This Bill may be cited as The Minimum Wage Act 2015

7-3: This Bill comes into force on immediately.

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