Employers failing to pay minimum wage named and shamed

Card Factory, Home Bargains and Bristol City F.C are among almost 240 firms that have been ‘named and shamed’ for failing to pay all its workers the National Minimum wage.

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The Government has released the names of 239 employers today who have collectively underpaid 22,400 UK workers by a total of £1.44million.

These employers have to pay back arrears of wages to the worker at current minimum wage rates and face financial penalties of up to 200% of arrears, capped at £20,000 per worker.

Sportswift Limited, trading as Card Factory, owes 10,256 workers an average of £41.94, T.J. Morris Limited, trading as Home Bargains, needs to pay an average of £40.37 to 6,743 workers, and Bristol City F.C needs to replay around £286.85 each to 50 workers.