r 10, definition of ‘pay reference period’ as one month, or a shorter period if that is how a worker is paid.
r 12, excluded are au pairs and family members in family business
r 15 ‘time work includes time when a worker is available at or near a place of work, other than his home, for the purpose of doing time work, and is required to be available for such work except that, in relations to a worker who by arrangement sleeps at or near a place of work, time during the hours he is permitted to sleep shall only be treated as being time work when the worker is awake for the purpose of working.’
r 15 a worker who is given suitable sleeping facilities is not doing work when not ‘awake for the purpose of working’.
r 25, ‘output work’ does not easily translate to an hourly rate. The employer must either pay minimum rate for each hour actually worked or ‘fair piece rate’
r 26, adults in the first 26 weeks of accredited training can be paid at a lower rate
r 27 if the worker is doing ‘unmeasured work’ then one will be paid according to how long one is spent carrying out the contractual duties required
r 28, the employer can make a ‘daily average agreement’ with the worker to specify the period of time paid
r 30, payments made in respect of the reference period are to be taken into account when calculating the wage paid.
r 31, reductions to the wage paid can be disregarded as falling below the minimum wage if they include deductions for industrial action absences allowances other than for work those under *r 34, namely worker’s expenditure in connection with his employment those under r 32, namely things for the worker’s ‘own use and benefit’ amounts for living accommodation under rr 36 and 37.
r 32, for r 31 legitimate deductions can include ‘in respect of the worker’s expenditure in connection with his employment’ and deductions ‘made by the employer for his own use and benefit’
r 33, deductions not to be subtracted under r 32 or ? are contractual liabilities, loans accidental overpayment of wages share purchase.
r 36, the amount deductible for accommodation is per day living accommodation must be available all the time.
r 38, records should be kept ‘sufficient to establish that he is remunerating the worker at a rate at least equal to the national minimum wage’
