I see some companies are already working around it!

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Yet over-25s in thousands of companies will see no increases and many will see their pay cut because tight-fisted employers have found ways to get around the new regulations. In B&Q, for example, new contracts are being introduced which will get rid of a long-standing bonus worth 6% of salary, reduce hourly rates for working on Sundays and bank holidays and cut back on territorial allowances for some workers in the most expensive parts of the country.

The effect of this is that many workers will end up losing hundreds and in some cases thousands of pounds a year, rather than getting the increase in remuneration that the new national living wage offers. And if workers don’t sign up to these new terms, their contracts will be terminated and they will lose any annual bonus they have accrued to date.

B&Q was already a low-paying employer but using the new minimum rates for over 25s as an excuse to cut remuneration for their workers is an outrage.
Richard Lynch
GMB union representative

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/01/poorer-people-are-the-real-losers-with-the-national-l...