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Introduction
The first edition of this Guide was produced in 1996 to help employers and workers understand the new rules resulting from the simplification of the Agricultural Wages (Scotland) Order (No 44) 1996.
This eleventh edition of the Guide incorporates the new rates of pay and other changes introduced with effect from Monday 1 January 2007.
These rates and other changes are contained in the Agricultural Wages (Scotland) Order (No 54) 2006, ("the Order"), a copy of which was issued with this Guide. The Order contains the detailed legal requirements for the calculation of minimum pay, holidays etc, and has to be written in the precise legal terms required to make the Order enforceable in law. The following guidance notes attempt to explain the rules in simpler terms and to answer some of the questions which are most likely to arise.
If you require a copy of this Guide or the Agricultural Wages Order in Gaelic, Polish or Russian, please contact us.
Scottish Agricultural Wages Board,
Pentland House,
47 Robb's Loan,
Edinburgh
EH14 1TY(E-mail: sawb@scotland.gsi.gov.uk)
(Tel: 0131-244-6397),
Where the National Minimum Wage becomes higher than the hourly or other minimum rate of pay prescribed under this Order, the Board is taken to have made an Order fixing minimum rates equal to the National Minimum Wage. Where these circumstances apply, employers affected by the Order will then be required to pay minimum rates of pay equal to the National Minimum Wage in respect of any period beginning at or after the time when the National Minimum Wage becomes higher than the minimum rates under this Order.
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