Committee for Employment & Social Security - P.2022/57
The States are asked to decide -
Whether, after consideration of the Policy Letter entitled 'Amendments to Statutory Minimum Wage Arrangements to Come into Force on 1st October 2022', dated 13th June 2022, they are of the opinion:-
1. (a) To direct the Committee for Employment & Social Security, whilst having regard to the requirements of the Minimum Wage (Guernsey) Law, 2009, to take fully into account when reviewing minimum wage rates that it is a policy objective of the States of Deliberation that the Young Persons' Minimum Wage Rate should be set at a rate equivalent to 90% (rounded to the nearest 5 pence) of the Adult Minimum Wage Rate by October 2024;
or, if Proposition 1(a) is not approved:
(b) To reaffirm the Resolution of the States made on 28th May 2010:
"To direct the Commerce and Employment Department [responsibility now rests with the Committee for Employment & Social Security], whilst having regard to the requirements of the Minimum Wage (Guernsey) Law, 2009, to take fully into account when reviewing minimum wage rates that it is a policy objective of the States of Deliberation that the Young Persons' Minimum Wage Rate and the Adult Minimum Wage Rate should be equalised as soon as possible.".
2. If Proposition 1(a) is approved:
(a) to approve the Minimum Wage (Prescribed Rates and Qualifications) (Guernsey) (Amendment) Regulations, 2022 (as set out in the Appendix to this Policy Letter), which pursuant to sections 1(3) and 3(1) of the Minimum Wage (Guernsey) Law, 2009, prescribe the hourly Minimum Wage Rates set out below with effect from 1st October 2022:
i. Adult Minimum Wage Rate: £9.55 per hour (for workers aged 18 and over), and
ii. Young Persons' Minimum Wage Rate: £8.95 per hour (for workers aged 16 and 17);
(b) to rescind Resolution 5 on Article XI of Billet d'État No. XI of 2010.
3. Only if Proposition 1(b) is approved:
(a) to agree that, with effect from 1st October 2022:
i. the rate of the Adult Minimum Wage shall be £9.55 per hour, and
ii. the rate of the Young Persons' Minimum Wage shall be £9.25 per hour; and
(b) to note that the Committee for Employment & Social Security will amend or revoke and replace the Minimum Wage (Prescribed Rates and Qualifications) (Guernsey) (Amendment) Regulations, 2022 (as set out in the Appendix to this Policy Letter) to reflect these rates, noting that the Regulations shall not have effect until approved by a resolution of the States.
