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The shame of 25 well known companies fades in to insignificance when you consider how many smaller firms probably get away with worse.

It's brilliant! An alternative view of the news. :-D

Great fun to read after the DM too
But then, I enjoy the silly aspects of life.

Never read Huffington Post before. See what we are missing:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/06/man-underpants-delays-m8-motorway-north-lanarkshire-picture_n_5457895.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

Kitty, the named employees are here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/08/minimum-wage-_n_5468015.html?1402222177&utm_hp_ref=uk

But this must be the tip of the iceberg.

Well up here petrol is over £6.00 per gallon and food bill average for a week of 4 over £150.00 but our wages are low too.When I left kent 20 years ago, my hourly rate in the bank was £7.00. Granted I had been there a long time and had climbed up the career ladder. However when i came here and worked for a local bank, the hourly pay .....£4.29!
today it is just about the minimum wage. When i hear on the news etc... that the average weekly wage is say £300, I get really cross as even if i worked in the school for 35 hours a week, I wouldnt be earning £300!! Our council has not given the auxiliaries a pay rise for 6 years, but at the end of the day, i do have a job.

Florence
in the hebrides.

Maybe if the boss at the council took a pay cut and shared it out(and he can well afford to do this) we would all be a bit better off.He doesnt go round T***0 with a budget of £100 to do the weekly shopping does he?

They all need naming and shaming, the minimum wage is a pittance anyway!

It is set nationally, but those of us who live in the so called" affluent south" have overheads, council tax, fuel prices and so on that are crippling those of us on or barely over the minimum wage :-(

Nice to see these businesses fined for all these breaches. Most of them seem to be hairdressers, restaurants and the like.

Names and addresses have appeared for them and they wil be in local papers no doubt - same as those with zero ratings for hygiene (often the best restaurants locally, but just an opinion).

But I cannot see this Premiership team staying anonymous. :-) ;-)

If these football only got the minimum wage, then they'd be taking home about £10 a week. ;-)

My only comment is that it is disgraceful to expect Fernando Torres and John Terry to buy their own home and away strips. Have you seen their shirt prices? :-0 :-0

The national minimum wage is currently £6.31 an hour for adults and will rise to £6.50 from October.

A list of 25 employers who failed to pay workers the minimum wage has been released by the government.
HMRC said this week that more than £4.6m had been paid out to 22,000 people, including staff at a Premier League club, who had been paid less than the minimum wage.
The unnamed football club, which made staff pay for their uniforms and also made deductions for travelling time, had to pay arrears of more than £27,500 to 3,000 workers.