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Enforcing the Minimum Wage
Author(s) -
Skidmore Paul
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of law and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.263
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1467-6478
pISSN - 0263-323X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6478.00135
Subject(s) - statutory law , minimum wage , enforcement , government (linguistics) , work (physics) , wage , labour economics , law enforcement , business , law and economics , economics , public economics , law , political science , engineering , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy
The introduction of the national minimum wage in the United Kingdom poses a new challenge for labour law because of its novel enforcement methods. This article examines carefully the possibilities for enforcing the new statutory minimum wage in the light of regulatory theory and the government's desire to make the wage ‘self‐enforcing’. It offers policy suggestions as to how the different enforcement strands can be best made to work together and highlights some of the dangers the government needs to be aware of in this area.