A spokesman for Haringey said the council contractually requires providers to obey minimum wage law, including remuneration for travel time.
This is why unemployed people are being forced into paint-the-rocks-white style work-for-the-dole-scheme, without even the dignity of remuneration at minimum wage.
The statutory guidance states local authorities should see evidence that "service providers deliver services through staff remunerated so as to retain an effective workforce" and that "remuneration must be at least sufficient to comply with the national minimum wage legislation for hourly pay or equivalent salary".
The prime minister on Sunday announced he would abolish the road safety remuneration tribunal, which sets minimum pay rates for truck drivers, if the Coalition wins re-election.
This "predistribution" has always been Miliband's (and policy chief Jon Cruddas's) big idea and now – in policies such as large and earlier than expected increases in the minimum wage, and employee representation on remuneration committees – it is made real.
In December the road safety remuneration tribunal made its first minimum pay order for owner-drivers, which was due to come into effect last Monday.
The data include a measure on whether the respective workplace was affected by the minimum wage by asking whether at least one worker received a remuneration below the initial hourly minimum wage of €8.500.
Labor set up the road safety remuneration tribunal when it was in office, arguing that a minimum pay rate would stop truck drivers skipping breaks and engaging in unsafe practices to expedite deliveries.
The Kenyan experience highlights the challenges in mandating financial remuneration for CHWs: the National Health and Human Resources plan initially recommended a standard minimum wage for CHWs, but later entered a clause that stated that this was dependent on the resources available to partner organizations, recognizing that the national government did not have sufficient funding [ 24].
We could not accept the last-minute amendment (41) from the GUE/NGL Group concerning a forced reduction in working hours, which would have restricted individual choice as well as remuneration; nor could we accept their amendment 45 regarding an EU-wide minimum wage, as the Treaty confirms that this is a matter for EU Member States, is not an EU competence and has no place in this report.
