apprentice pay

[dreamevil]

hi,

im on an apprenticeship atm with a company and everything is fine. however a new guy joined not long ago on a trial period. he told me because that will extend past September he wont be able to start his apprenticeship until next year. then he told me he was being paid somewhere near apprentice wage.

the type of work he is doing is almost completely unsupervised second fixing on a production line with a mix of unqualified, qualified and apprentice sparks.

is it legal for his boss to pay him less than minimum wage for a whole year becouse he expects too put him on an apprenticeship after?

thanks for reading.

 

[Knobhead]

I wasn’t drunk on Kimberly Bitter, the brewery has been demolished.

 

[BeerSpark]

Different trade, but our appo's start on £15k pa. For a year full time at College!! Living the dream!

 

[Geordie Spark]

Could be worse, I was on £9-4/- a week when I started. Mum wanted £5 of that. Dad gave it me back and more beside.

Mind you a pint of Kimberly best bitter was 2/2d

You were on a better deal than I was!

My pay was £3/10/00 gross. With 9/- taken off for N.I. I was left with £3/01/00. Then there was the bus fare for the week which was something like 9/- and Mum got the rest but she slipped me a quid or two and bought me some things now and then so it wasn't all bad.