AIBU to not sign this contract?

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Hi everyone,

Need some advice! I've taken up a part time job just to boost income a bit. Manager told me she'd need me to work 21 hours a week because of the shifts, it's a 18 hour contract. This I didn't mind at all, extra money for me at the end of the day. I told him it was fine.

Fast forward, I've just received my contract. It's from the company headquarters obviously and says

'You will be expected to work extra hours, unpaid, for the business and its requirements. This has already been considered when setting your basic pay'...

The pay is minimum wage? Surely that's illegal? So they want me to work 12 hours plus for free a month? I'm so confused and stressed.

AIBU to not sign this contract? And are they allowed to do this?

Thanks!

I am 100% certain it's minimum wage. Without being too outing it's working for a chain of bars, and states in the contract I'm in an hourly rate of the current minimum wage for my age group

I knew you'd say it was hospitality, but as PPs have said this is illegal since it would take you under the minimum wage overall

Definitely send the messages/contract you've had to HMRC, and of course refuse the job

They definitely know. The OP said that it "states in the contract I'm on an hourly rate of the current minimum wage for my age group!"

Is it Wetherspoons? They don’t exactly cover themselves in glory at times.

Whether it's an hourly rate or salaried is totally irrelevant. If the salary divided by the number of hours actually worked (not what's listed in the contract, but hours actually worked) is less than NMW, that is illegal

Yes, I'm aware. Disagree that being salaried or not is 'irrelevant' though.

The reason I asked op whether she was salaried is because for an hourly rate job it's very obvious whether you're being paid at minimum wage rate per hour.

Salaried jobs have a greater margin for employee misunderstandings ime. I've seen people do all kinds of weird and wonderful calculations using their annual salary, to work out what their hourly rate is - and then arrive at a totally wrong figure due to misunderstanding the calculations.