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Changes to Pensions

For employers with fewer than 50 workers, the start of pensions auto-enrolment is being postponed from April 2014 to May 2015. www.sandy-a.co.uk/employment.htm#nest
From 6 April, it will no longer be possible for employees with certain types of pension to be “contracted out” of additional state pension. www.sandy-a.co.uk/employment.htm#additionalstatepension

Changes in state pension age (at this rate, the year-old twins I babysit - for a couple of hours each week will probably have to work until they are 90, or maybe 100). www.sandy-a.co.uk/employment.htm#statepensions

Guide to the national minimum wage with regard to volunteers and voluntary workers

Volunteers and voluntary workers are two separate categories of people for national minimum wage (NMW) purposes.

Volunteers are not workers, and so are not entitled to be paid the NMW. Voluntary workers are workers however they are exempt from the NMW entitlement provided certain conditions are met. This guide explains the different meaning of volunteers and voluntary workers and their entitlements to the NMW. Read more.