Employment: Misrepresentation
Commons · Question 75711 · Tabled 8 Sep 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record
Answered 16 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Lisa Smart
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
Answered by Kate Dearden, 16 Sep 2025
Employers 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...