This is the thirteenth round of government naming and shaming for employers who have failed to pay National Minimum Wage and Living Wage rates. Government investigators identified £1.7 million in back pay for some of the UK’s lowest paid workers and fined employers £1.3 million for underpayment.
Sectors that featured prominently in this naming and shaming round were:
34 retailers for 11,072 workers
58 hospitality businesses for 288 workers
40 are hairdressing businesses for 118 workers
Reasons for errors made include:
failing to pay workers travelling between jobs deducting money from pay for uniforms not paying for overtime.
See the list of 260 employers who have been named and shamed for underpaying minimum wage rates.
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Minimum wages - reputation and enforcement 5 January 2018
Join the CIPP, IES and Eversheds-Sutherland for a half day briefing on minimum wages. Areas covered include the consequences of a trebling in minimum wage jobs, increasing enforcement, current issues and reviewing your employment and reward models.
Three keynote speakers will be delivering sessions in London, Leeds, Cardiff, Manchester and Birmingham on a number of dates through January, February and March. The half day briefing covers the following:
Your reputation as an employer the court of public opinion
name and shame and criminal offences broadening scope of minimum wage; are you prepared?
Minimum wages – key concepts who qualifies, including home-workers, interns, agency workers and the self-employed five rates: who gets what, including apprentices the basic calculation: amounts (treated as) paid divided by hours (treated as) worked types of work: salaried, time, output, unmeasured Some problem areas pay averaging, annualised hours and time off in lieu: salaried hours or time worker? what constitutes ‘work’ and ‘working hours’: travel, sleep, waiting, security checks, piece-work what pay is included: overtime, shift premiums, allowances, benefits, salary sacrifice? risk of detriment claims deductions and payments that reduce pay and those that do not: work-wear and equipment, leavers, purchases from employer Inspection, enforcement, punishment HMRC powers, their interpretation of the Regulations and their obligation to BEIS enforcement by the worker record keeping, worker and HMRC access, and the burden of proof small mistakes become big problems: arrears recalculated at today’s rate; fines at 200% Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2018
Reviewing your employment model
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