Welfare Reform on the Web (February 2003): Minimum Wage - UK

THE OPERATION OF THE LOW PAY COMMISSION

W Brown

Employee Relations, vol. 24, 2002, p.595-605

Paper describes the working of the Low Pay Commission which was set up to advise on the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in the UK. It discusses the way in which the Commission was constituted and the consultation procedures and research methods it developed over its first four years.