27 businesses named and shamed for paying below minimum wage
SOME 27 businesses in the North West have been named and shamed for failing to pay their workers the National Minimum Wage.
The list – including League Two football club Blackpool – is the largest of under-payers is the is the longest ever nationally and includes.
Across the UK 198 companies owed £466,219 in arrears across a range of employers, including football clubs, hotels, care homes and hairdressers. All of the money owed to the workers has been paid back to them.
Business Minister Margot James, who published the list, said: “This Government is determined to build an economy that works for everyone, not just the privileged few.
“That means making sure everyone gets paid the wages they are owed – including our new, higher, National Living Wage. It is not acceptable that some employers fail to pay at least the minimum wage their workers are entitled to.
“So we’ll continue to crack down on those who ignore the law, including by naming and shaming them.”
The combined North West businesses paid back nearly £30,000 they owed.
The businesses are:
Ray Macfarlane, trading as Rays Auto Custom Services, Blackburn, owed £4,396.74 to two workers
A & G Precision & Sons, Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, owed £3,723.24 to one worker
Playdays Daycare Nursery, Bolton, owed £3,277.04 to one worker
KAB Development & Construction, Sandbach, Cheshire, owed £2,815.51 to one worker
Flavourfresh Salads, Southport, Merseyside, owed £2,154.94 to three workers
Paper Innovation, Preston, owed £2,024.82 to four workers
Preston Flowers, Preston, owed £1,493.40
Independent British 4×4 Specialists, Bury, owed £1,422.41
Avanti Express, Hyde, Greater Manchester, owed 1,300 to one worker
Temple Doors, Stockport, owed £674.98 to one worker
Legal Claimline, Manchester, owed £612.49 to one worker
Olyness, trading as The New Westmere Day Nursery, Blackpool, owed £561.20 to one worker
Blackpool Football Club, owed £517.88
247 Home Rescue (name changed to 123 SRS Ltd), Accrington, Lancashire, owed £493.05 to one worker
Dove’s Nest, Manchester, owed £439.37 to 19 workers
Kevin Boyd, trading as Billion Hair, Wigan, owed £396.07 to one worker
Simply Auto Enrolment Solutions, Bury, owed £390.00 to one worker
Contact Industrial Recruitment, Urmston, Manchester, owed £378.77 to 64 workers
Stephen Johnstone & son Funeral Directors, Chester, owed £347.05 to one worker
Motorbody Accident Repair Centre, Ambleside, Cumbria, owed £338.27 to one worker
Manchester Super Store (Rusholme), Manchester, owed £315,50 to one worker
Sollertia, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, owed £271.95 to one worker
Kinza Beauty Lounge, Ashton-under-Lyne, owed £258.30 to one worker
Euro Dental Laboratory Services, Chorley, owed £173 to one worker
Food n Tipple, owed £147.28 to one worker
Beau Visage Beauty, Manchester, owed £141 to one worker
L M Bubble Tea, trading as Mooboo, Liverpool, owed £117.19 to one worker.
