{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-minimum-wage-regulations-2015/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-minimum-wage-regulations-2015/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/621",
  "legislation_title": "The National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-minimum-wage-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Absences from work to be reduced from the salaried hours work in a pay reference period",
  "text": "(1) The hours a worker is absent from work are to be subtracted from the hours of salaried hours work in a pay reference period if all of the following conditions are met—\n(a) the employer is entitled under the worker’s contract to reduce the annual salary due to the absence;\n(b) the employer pays the worker less than the normal proportion of annual salary in the pay reference period as a result of the absence.\n(2) The hours during which a worker takes industrial action are to be subtracted from the hours of salaried hours work in a pay reference period if an annual salary was payable for those hours, or would have been payable but for the industrial action.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 23 in force at 6.4.2015, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/621/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:43:27.413008+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}