EV salary sacrifice: who can join without breaching minimum wage

Guide explaining EV salary sacrifice scheme eligibility criteria for HR professionals, including minimum salary thresholds and worker classifications.

THRIVE Newsdesk · Market & Business · Issue 4Published
EV Salary Sacrifice Eligibility: Who Can Join? Guide for HR | loveelectric
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Salary sacrifice EV schemes live or die on eligibility rules, and the edge cases need checking rather than guessing. Loveelectric's new guidance tackles the awkward ones: minimum earnings thresholds against national minimum wage, and whether zero-hours or variable-pay staff can join at all - a question that trips up plenty of schemes built around a standard nine-to-five payroll model (Loveelectric). Get this wrong and you either exclude lower earners who, loveelectric argues, can benefit most from the bundled package, or breach minimum wage rules by sacrificing someone below the floor. Worth a policy review before your next scheme renewal, particularly if your workforce includes shift or casual workers.

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