If your employer fails to pay your wages correctly, you may have a claim for breach of contract. Breach of contract occurs when either you or your employer does not adhere to a term in your contract of employment. In the context of pay, an example would be where your employer fails to pay you in lieu of notice which you are entitled to under your contract – this would be a breach of contract.

New regulations have increased the fines for employers who pay below the National Minimum Wage and employ illegal workers.

Judges at the Court of Session have ruled in favour of a professional golf caddie whose application for jobseeker’s allowance had been rejected by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). At issue was the question of whether the self-employed seasonal worker, whose spring and summer work had ended for the year, should be regarded as being ‘in remunerative work’ or not.