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“Young apprentices are being paid as little as £6.40 an hour on the current National Minimum Wage rate, and this will only increase to £7.55 in April 2025,” he points out.
The National Minimum Wage Act 1998 (c. 39) creates a minimum wage across the United Kingdom. [2] From 1 April 2024, the minimum wage is £11.44 per hour for people aged 21 and over, £8.60 for 18- to 20-year-olds, and £6.40 for 16- to 17-year-olds and apprentices aged under 19 or in the first year of their apprenticeship. [ 3 ] (
The Apprenticeship Levy is a UK tax on employers which is used to fund apprenticeship training. Introduced at the start of the 2017/18 tax year, it is payable by all employers with an annual pay bill of more than £3 million, at a rate of 0.5% of their total pay bill. It is collected through the Pay as you Earn process alongside other ...
The government has pledged to increase the employment rate to 80% from its current level of around 75%, which would mean around two million more people in work.
In 1994, the UK Government introduced Modern Apprenticeships (renamed Apprenticeships in England, Wales and Northern Ireland), based on frameworks today of the Sector Skills Councils. In 2009, the National Apprenticeship Service was founded to coordinate apprenticeships in England.
The ONS said average regular pay growth, excluding bonuses, fell to 6.1% in the quarter to January, down from 6.2% in the three months to December.
The Statute of Artificers 1563 or the Artificers and Apprentices Act 1563 (5 Eliz. 1. c. c. 4), also known as the Statute of Labourers 1562 , [ 1 ] was an act of the Parliament of England , under Queen Elizabeth I , which sought to fix prices, impose maximum wages, restrict workers' freedom of movement and regulate training.
It introduced a quango, the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS). The National Skills Director of the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) was to be in charge of the NAS. The LSC at the time had had most of its funding farmed out to local authorities. The NAS was to be part of the LSC, as outlined in the government's 2008 document on apprenticeships.