ciao,
a friend of ours who works in a local warehouse just showed us his first payslip after the introduction of the new minimum wage. he used to earn £7 per hour, now the rate is £7.20. the company first sent him a payslip with the old rate, then corrected to the new rate. the peculiar thing is that while the £7 rate slip showed no NI deductions, on the new rate he had a weekly deduction of £5 for NI - ending up earning less than before! we wait for our pay slips and see what happened to those who earned the previous minimum wage.
a similar thing happened when they increased from £6.50 to £6.70 - they recalculated my working tax credit (after short spell of unemployment) and i ended up having the same if not less money per week with the 'increased' minimum wage...
any other experiences?
The state giveth, the state
The state giveth, the state taketh away.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/35997273/caffe-nero-staff-lose-free-lunch-after-national-living-wage-introduced
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-high-street-hall-of-shame-all-the-companies-ripping-off-their-employees-over-the-living-wage