Employed students and the accommodation offset

• Recommend on Facebook
• 
• Share on Linkedin
• share via Reddit
• Tweet about it
• Subscribe to the comments on this post
• Print for later
• Tell a friend

The national minimum wage (NMW) rules allow employers who provide accommodation for workers to include it, up to a specified limit, as a benefit in kind towards payment of the NMW.  The current limit is £4.61 per day, or £32.37 for a full week.

On 18 January, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) published a new consultation document entitled National Minimum Wage: Employed Students and the Accommodation Offset.  This consultation seeks input on the extent to which Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) provide accommodation to students and also employ them part-time.  If they do, it asks how and in what circumstances HEIs should be excluded from the accommodation offset rules.  It also seeks input relating to Further Education Colleges and asks whether they should also be included in any change to the law.

Responses to the options considered in the consultation document should be submitted by 12 April 2011.

Further information:

National Minimum age: Employed Students and the Accommodation Offset. A consultation

National Minimum age: Employed Students and the Accommodation Offset. A consultation – response form

Tags: Recent Payroll News, Student accommodation

This entry was posted on Friday, January 21st, 2011 at 16:33 and is filed under Employers, employment, Employment Law, Students. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.