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Tag Archives: Enforcement
Minimum wage, minimum shame?
On 8 December, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) named & shamed another 260 employers for non-compliance with the national minimum wage. Inevitably, press and media coverage of this round of naming & shaming – the 13th … Continue reading
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Tagged Enforcement, naming & shaming, National minimum wage, Primark, Sports Direct
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Wish you were here, Minister
Batting for the ‘have nots’ rather than the ‘haves’, lefty policy wonks like me don’t get to claim many policy wins – we spend most of our professional lives banging our world-weary heads against very well constructed brick walls. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Enforcement, Paid holiday, Taylor Review, Unpaid Britain, Working Time Regulations
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NMW enforcement: has BIS kissed goodbye to £4m in financial penalties?
As noted on this blog in February, something very unusual went on with enforcement of the national minimum wage (NMW) in 2015/16, with both the total amount of NMW arrears recovered by HMRC and the number of workers benefiting from … Continue reading
NMW enforcement: curiouser and curiouser
To their credit – and that is not something I tend to say very often – Tory ministers appear to have been stung into action by revelations that large, profitable companies such as B&Q, Morrisons, Tesco and Caffe Nero are … Continue reading
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Tagged Enforcement, National living wage, National minimum wage, NMW
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Workers thank their lucky stars for the Workers’ Party. Oh, hang on …
Every now and then, someone in the Labour Party has a pop at the Tories for not prosecuting enough employers for breaching the national minimum wage. When he was shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna was not averse to skating on this … Continue reading
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Tagged Employment rights, Enforcement, ET fees, National minimum wage, Wage theft
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Minimum wage enforcement, the Tory way
Something very unusual has been going on with enforcement of the national minimum wage. As the following table shows, over the past five years HMRC has recovered an average of £3.9 million in arrears for an average of 23,147 workers. … Continue reading
BIS, you cannot be serious!
So, with markedly less media hoo-ha than on previous occasions, BIS today ‘named & shamed’ another 92 employers for breaching the national minimum wage (NMW). The relative dearth of national media coverage may reflect the absence from this tranche – … Continue reading
