{"id":2071,"date":"2025-12-09T15:55:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:55:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:55:33","slug":"big-news-for-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/big-news-for-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Big news for workers!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The goverment has announced new increase to the <strong>National Living Wage and Minimum Wage<\/strong>, Due to take effect from 1 April 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>National Living Wage (21+)<\/strong><br>Rising from <strong>\u00a312.21 to \u00a312.71<\/strong><br>Worth up to <strong>\u00a3900 extra a year<\/strong> for full-time workers<br><br><strong>18-20 year olds<\/strong><br>Increasing from <strong>\u00a310.00 to \u00a310.85<\/strong><br>Up to <strong>\u00a31,500 more a year<\/strong><br><br><strong>16-17 year olds &amp; apprentices<\/strong><br>Going up from<strong> \u00a37.55 to \u00a38.00<\/strong><br><br>These changes are part of the plan to narrow the gap between age groups and eventually create <strong>one single adult wage rate starting from age 18.<\/strong><br><br><strong>Reminder for employers:<\/strong><br>Make sure your payroll system are updated ahead of 1 April 2026 to ensure employees are paid the correct rate. <br><br>As always, if you&#8217;d like support with payroll, budgeting, or understanding how the changes affect your business, get in touch &#8211; our team are here to help. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goverment has announced new increase to the National Living Wage and Minimum Wage, Due to take effect from 1 April 2026 National Living Wage (21+)Rising from \u00a312.21 to \u00a312.71Worth up to \u00a3900 extra a<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/12\/09\/big-news-for-workers\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2072,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions\/2072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccountingservices.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}