Agricultural Wages Act 1948

The Agricultural Wages Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 47) was a UK Act of Parliament under which the Agricultural Wages Board regulated the amount that farm workers were paid, in order to guarantee a fair minimum wage scale, depending, for example, on type of work, or years of experience. After the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 was introduced, agricultural wages tended to be slightly higher than those at the minimum. However, the Conservative-Liberal-Democrat coalition government decided to allow farm worker wages to be reduced by repealing most of the 1948 Act in the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013. This did not affect Scotland.

Background

 * Agriculture Act 1920
 * Agricultural Wages (Regulation) Act 1924
 * Minister of Food (United Kingdom)