Minimum wage scandal | John Lewis & Pret among firms 'named and shamed' for underpaying workers by £2m

Big brands such as Pret, McColls, John Lewis and Welcome Break are among hundreds of firms named and shamed by the Government for failing to pay workers the minimum wage.

A new Gov.uk paper has today listed 191 UK companies which broke the law on the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage between 2011 and 2018.

In total, more than £2.1million was owed to circa 34,000 workers.

The report claimed 47% of named firms wrongly deducted pay from workers’ wages, including for uniform and expenses. A further 30% failed to pay workers for all the time they had worked, such as when they worked overtime, and 19% were found to have paid the incorrect apprenticeship rate.