{"id":101,"date":"2016-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duffyregan.wpengine.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/05\/changes-to-nlw-and-nmw-from-april-2017\/"},"modified":"2016-12-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T00:00:00","slug":"changes-to-nlw-and-nmw-from-april-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/duffyregan.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/12\/05\/changes-to-nlw-and-nmw-from-april-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to NLW and NMW from April 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tFrom April 2017, the National Living Wage (NLW) for the over 25s is being increased to &pound;7.50 per hour. This is an increase from the current NLW rate set in October 2016 of &pound;7.20 an hour. For the over 25s, this will represent a wage increase of just over 4%.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe National Minimum Wage (NMW) will also increase from the same date to:<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For 21 to 24 year olds &ndash; from &pound;6.95 to &pound;7.05 per hour<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For 18 to 20 year olds &ndash; from &pound;5.55 to &pound;5.60 per hour<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For 16 to 17 year olds &ndash; from &pound;4.00 to &pound;4.05 per hour<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For apprentices &ndash; from &pound;3.40 to &pound;3.50 per hour<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe government will also be spending an additional &pound;4.3m to ensure that employers are complying with their legal obligation to pay the NMW.<\/p>\n<!-- -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From April 2017, the National Living Wage (NLW) for the over 25s is being increased to &pound;7.50 per hour. This is an increase from the current NLW rate set in October 2016 of &pound;7.20 an hour. For the over 25s, this will represent a wage increase of just over 4%. The National Minimum Wage (NMW) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/duffyregan.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/duffyregan.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/duffyregan.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/duffyregan.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/duffyregan.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/duffyregan.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/duffyregan.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/duffyregan.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}