Small London firms named and shamed after failing to pay workers national minimum wage

 
Named and shamed: Businesses not paying staff the minimum wage
Hannah Al-Othman31 July 2015

Businesses across London have been named and shamed for failing to pay workers the National Minimum Wage.

A total of 75 companies up and down the country were identified by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Between them, the named companies owed workers more than £153,000 in arrears, and span sectors including hairdressing, fashion, publishing, hospitality, health and fitness, automotive, social care, and retail.

The biggest offender in the capital was Rolfe East (Letting and Management) Ltd, based in Ealing, which had failed to pay twenty workers a total of £7,107.43.

Other London companies outed by the government include Bibas Hair & Beauty Ltd, near Russell Square, which neglected to pay £7,204.79 to two workers, and KAE Marketing Intelligence Ltd in Southwark, which failed to pay £3,757.64 to five workers.

Also named were Carboclass Ltd, in Willesden, which neglected to pay £1,762.27 to two workers, and Activkids South East Ltd, in Greenwich, which owed £719.62 to one member of staff.

The Garden Sandwich Bar Ltd in Seven Sisters was named for owing £600.41 to a staff member, and Rayman and Thomas Ltd in Southwark also neglected to pay £149.50 to one worker, while Waterman Infrastructure and Environment Ltd, also in Southwark, was named for failing to pay an employee £114.01.

Employers who fail to pay staff correctly are issued with a Notice of Underpayment (NoU), which sets out the owed wages to be paid by the employer, together with the penalty for not complying with minimum wage law.

All of the businesses have now paid their employees the money that they were owed.

Business Minister Nick Boles said: "As a one nation government on the side of working people we are determined that everyone who is entitled to the National Minimum Wage receives it.

"When the new National Living Wage is introduced next April we will enforce robustly.

"This means that the hard-working people of the UK will get the pay rise they deserve."

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