Minimum wage offenders named


Nigh on 200 employers that failed to pay their workers the statutory National Minimum Wage have been publicly named and shamed.


Between them, the 197 companies named owed £465,291. There is a range of employers including football clubs, hotels, care homes and hairdressers. All of the money owed to these workers has been paid back to them.


The largest sum owed was £99,542 to 30 workers employed by the family run, Italian restaurant San Lorenzo, based in south west London. The arrears owed equates to £3,318 a worker. 


Many of the firms named and shamed are local businesses, but there are some subsidiaries of larger companies.


Regis UK, Coventry is the UK arm of the US firm Regis Corporation. The unisex hairdressing salon chain, which had a turnover of £73 million in 2015, owed £25,700 to 604 workers. One unnamed director of Regis UK had a remuneration package of £201,000 in the year to June 2015. 


Cleaning group Interserve FS (UK) with a turnover of £367 million is part of Interserve plc, a London Stock Exchange quoted company. It owed £894 to four workers. 


Football’s Premier League may be awash with money, but further down the leagues times are harder. Nevertheless, fans of two football teams may be surprised to see their team feature. Championship side Brighton and Hove Albion owed £2,862 to one worker and League Two team Blackpool owed £518 to one worker


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