Shipping: Minimum Wage

(asked on 14th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the timeframe is for his Department to bring forward legislative proposals to extend the application of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 to seafarers.


Answered by
Nusrat Ghani Portrait
Nusrat Ghani
This question was answered on 20th January 2020

An Order in Council making the legislative changes is expected to be laid in draft before Parliament next month. This will be subject to the affirmative process and debates will be scheduled as the parliamentary timetable permits before final approval is sought from the Privy Council.

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