Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 75711
Employment: Misrepresentation
Tabled: 8 September 2025
Answered: 16 September 2025
Question
Lisa Smart
Liberal Democrat — Hazel Grove
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether her Department plans to strengthen enforcement powers against employers who misrepresent jobs as apprenticeships in order to (a) pay below the National Minimum Wage and (b) use apprentices as c
Answer
Kate DeardenEmployers are required by law to pay their apprentices the correct rate of the National Minimum Wage. An apprenticeship combines on the job learning and classroom-based learning. Employers cannot call a worker an apprentice if they are not genuinely an ap...
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