By Matthew Roscoe • Published: 31 Dec 2020 • 10:47
139 COMPANIES named and shamed for failing to pay minimum wage, which resulted in £6.7 million not being paid to over 95,000 workers.
Almost 140 companies, including some of the UK’s biggest household names, are being named and shamed today (December 31) for failing to pay their workers the minimum wage.
Investigated between 2016 and 2018, the 139 named companies failed to pay £6.7 million to over 95,000 workers in total, in a flagrant breach of employment law. The offending companies range in size from small businesses to large multinationals who employ thousands of people across the UK.
This is the first time the government has named and shamed companies for failing to pay National Minimum Wage since 2018, following reforms to the process to ensure only the worst offenders are targeted.
One of the main causes of minimum wage breaches was low-paid employees being made to cover work costs, which would eat into their pay packet, such as paying for uniform, training or parking fees.
Also, some employers failed to raise employees’ pay after they had a birthday which should have moved them into a different National Minimum Wage bracket.
Employers who pay workers less than the minimum wage have to pay back arrears of wages to the worker at current minimum wage rates. They also face hefty financial penalties of up to 200 per cent of arrears – capped at £10,000 per worker – which are paid to the government.
This is the full list of companies named for failing to pay the National Minimum Wage:
Each of the companies named today have paid back their workers, and were forced to pay financial penalties.
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