Amendments to Statutory Minimum Wage arrangements to come into force on 1st January 2022

Committee for Employment & Social Security - P.2021/101

The States are asked to decide:-

Whether, after consideration of the Policy Letter entitled 'Amendments to Statutory Minimum Wage Arrangements to Come into Force on 1 st January 2022', dated 13 th September 2021, they are of the opinion:-

1. To approve the Minimum Wage (Prescribed Rates and Qualifications) (Guernsey) (Amendment) Regulations, 2021 (as set out in the Appendix to this Policy Letter), which pursuant to sections 1(3) and 3(1) of the Minimum Wage (Guernsey) Law, 2009, prescribe the hourly minimum wage rates set out below with effect from 1 st January 2022:

a. adult minimum wage rate: £9.05 per hour (for workers aged 18 and over), and b. young person's minimum wage rate: £8.60 per hour (for workers aged 16 and 17).