Almost 200 employers who failed to pay their workers the legal minimumhave been publicly named, Business Minister Margot James announced today (11 August 2016).
Between them, the 197 companies named owed £465,291 in arrears, across a range of employers including football clubs, hotels, care homes and hairdressers. All of the money owed to these workers has been paid back to them.
Since the scheme was introduced in October 2013, 687 employers have been named and shamed, with total arrears of more than £3.5 million.
Business Minister Margot James 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 National Living Wage for workers aged 25 and over was introduced in April this year, which has meant a pay rise of more than £900-a-year for someone previously working full time on the National Minimum Wage. For workers under the age of 25, the National Minimum Wage still applies.
It is an employer’s responsibility to be aware of the different minimum wage rates depending on the circumstances of their workers – and to make sure all eligible workers are paid at least the minimum rate they are entitled to.
The National Living Wage will be enforced equally robustly alongside the National Minimum Wage.
The 197 employers named today (11 August 2016) are:
- San Lorenzo Ltd, Wimbledon, London, owed £99,541.98 to 30 workers
- Premier Recruitment Ltd, Derby, owed £34,797.33 to 424 workers
- Regis UK Ltd, Coventry, owed £25,712.19 to 604 workers
- RD Resourcing Ltd, Eastleigh, Hampshire, owed £14,350.00 to 122 workers
- TM West Plumbing Services Ltd, Leeds, owed £12,617.76 to 2 workers
- Mr Ronald McConnachie, trading as Bay Newsagents, Weymss Bay, Renfrewshire, owed £12,527.97 to 3 workers
- SLW Ltd, trading as Sycamore Care Centre, Sunderland, owed £10,212.05 to 98 workers
- Kushi Care Ltd, Leicester, owed £9,726.23 to 46 workers
- Busy Bee Nursery (Newport-on-Tay) Ltd, trading as Little Beehive Nursery, Fife, owed £9,065.14 to 7 workers
- Omega Proteins Ltd, Halifax, owed £8,977.51 to 5 workers
- Mr Moo’s Family Butchers Ltd, Billingham, Cleveland, owed £7,371.25 to 4 workers
- Rice Chamberlains Estate Agents Ltd, Birmingham, owed £6,580.63 to 3 workers
- Black Swan (Yorkshire) Ltd trading as The Black Swan Hotel, Hemsley, Yorkshire, owed £5,836.66 to 10 workers
- Michael Holmes, trading as Fitzroy Builders, Newtownards, County Down, owed £5,371.76 to 2 workers
- Voyage 1 Ltd, Lichfield, Staffordshire, owed £5,337.73 to 3 workers
- Minee Monkeys Ltd (previously Mini Monkeys Ltd), Oldbury, owed £5,209.96 to 1 worker
- Haven Care Ltd, Ilford, owed £4,695.89 to 101 workers
- Mr Ray Macfarlane, trading as Rays Auto Custom Services, Blackburn, owed £4,396.74 to 2 workers
- Catering Academy Ltd, Tamworth, Staffordshire, owed £4,220.48 to 1 worker
- A & G Precision & Sons Ltd, Poulton Le Fylde, Lancashire, owed £3,723.24 to 1 worker
- Azafran Ltd trading as Bluebird Care (Coleraine), Coleraine, owed £3,707.92 to 67 workers
- Woods Hair Ltd, trading as Chapters Hair Design, Witney, Oxfordshire, owed £3,676.87 to 1 worker
- Mr Keith Smith & Mrs Lynda Smith, trading as KLS Electrical Contracting, Goole, East Yorkshire, owed £3,619.70 to 1 worker
- SPRIM V.P.I Limited, London, SW1V, owed £3,543.44 to 1 worker
- Mr Prakas Kitto, trading as Kash’s Off Licence, Spennymoor, County Durham, owed £3,445.88 to 1 worker
- Topstaff Employment Ltd, Glasgow, owed £3,355.25 to 20 workers
- Playdays Daycare Nursery Ltd, Bolton, owed £3,277.04 to 1 worker
- Mr Ben Wilkins and Mr Harry Williamson, trading as BHW Property Solutions, Bedford, owed £2,933.48 to 1 worker
- Castle Carpets Ltd, Shrewsbury, owed £2,898.12 to 1 worker
- Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club Limited, Brighton, owed £2,861.64 to 1 worker
- KAB Development & Construction Ltd, Sandbach, Cheshire, owed £2,815.51 to 1 worker
- Mr Nicholas & Mrs Christina Winstone-Partridge, trading as Wholesale Autoparts, Kidlington, Oxfordshire, owed £2,691.73 to 1 worker
- Pine View Care Homes Ltd, trading as Royal Manor Nursing Home, Derby, owed £2,620.45 to 1 worker
- Silverdale Care Homes Ltd, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, owed £2,590.99 to 1 worker
- Mrs Margaret Pink, trading as Gems Childcare, Croydon, owed £2,558.80 to 4 workers
- UK Education Providers Ltd, Romford, owed £2,494.83 to 2 workers
- Ro-Ro Restaurants Ltd, trading as Oldfields Noted Eating House, Durham, owed £2,463.98 to 3 workers
- Betterstaff Industrial & Commercial Recruitment Limited, Sidcup, Kent, owed £2,441.92 to 23 workers
- Bambinos Ltd, Plymouth, owed £2,381.97 to 58 workers
- Prestwood Motors Ltd, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, owed £2,375.00 to 1 worker
- G C Motors Ltd, Harrogate, owed £2,328.83 to 2 workers
- Flavourfresh Salads Ltd, Southport, Merseyside, owed £2,154.94 to 3 workers
- Mr Chi Kin Cheng, trading as The Modern Chinese Takeaway, Derby, owed £2,124.58 to 1 worker
- Macdonalds Hotels & Resorts Ltd, Bathgate, West Lothian, owed £2,123.10 to 6 workers
- Paper Innovation Ltd, Preston, owed £2,024.82 to 4 workers
- Hairstopper Limited, Ayr, owed £2,021.07 to 2 workers
- Ms Susanna Ross, trading as Susanna’s Hair & Beauty, Ayr, owed £2,013.22 to 1 worker
- Messrs Robert Goodwin & Paul Coxhead, trading as Instant Services (Domestic Appliances), Rochester, Kent, owed £1,978.68 to 1 worker
- K Construction (Scotland) Ltd, Edinburgh, owed £1,916.61 to 2 workers
- The Buck Project Ltd, Chalgrove, Oxfordshire, owed £1,915.15 to 1 worker
- Philips Hair Salons Ltd, Wakefield, owed £1,904.00 to 4 workers
- The Hobbs Hairdressing Partnership Ltd, trading as Hobbs Hairdressing, Bristol, owed £1,883.90 to 2 workers
- Mr Snippers Ltd, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, owed £1,867.54 to 1 worker
- Newlay Civil Engineering Ltd, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, owed £1,860.60 to 1 worker
- Mr Ronald Archibald Mutton and Mrs Sandra Anne Mutton, trading as A1 Plumbing & Heating, Oxford, owed £1,834.13 to 1 worker
- Cheasty Ltd, trading as Papa Johns, Edinburgh, EH8, owed £1,811.33 to 19 workers
- Mr Darren Harding & Mrs Amy Harding, trading as The Wheatsheaf, Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire, owed £1,792.69 to 2 workers
- Mrs Elizabeth Richardson, trading as Poppies, Durham, owed £1,772.13 to 23 workers
- Mrs Sheena Lyttel, trading as Pamela Clair, Derby, owed, £1,699.01 to 1 worker
- AA Dispatch (UK) Ltd, Thetford, Norfolk, owed £1,669.41 to 1 worker
- Mrs Jeanette Mullen, trading as Fleetcare, Bristol, owed £1,665.38 to 1 worker
- Mr Carl Smith, trading as Nottingham & District Gun Club, Oxton, Nottinghamshire, owed £1,635.03 to 2 workers
- Gwynedd Electrical Contractors Ltd, Anglesey, owed £1,625.92 to 1 worker
- McLeod Hotels Ltd, trading as Beechwood Close Hotel, York, owed £1,526.20 to 13 workers
- Small Talk Nurseries Ltd, Birmingham, owed £1,499.30 to 10 workers
- Preston Flowers Limited, Preston, owed £1,493.40 to 1 worker
- A1 Independent British 4×4 Specialists Ltd, Bury, Lancashire, owed £1,422.44 to 1 worker
- High Peak Hospicecare, Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire, owed £1,363.13 to 1 worker
- Avanti Express Ltd, Hyde, Greater Manchester, owed £1,300.16 to 1 worker
- Mr Mark Leicester & Mrs Elizabeth Leicester, trading as Yorkshire Chimney Supplies, Harrogate, owed £1,264.76 to 1 worker
- Mr Thomas Till and Mrs Pauline Till, trading as Misters of Stafford, owed £1,254.76 to 1 worker
- Huddlebuy Ltd, London, EC4V, owed £1,236.88 to 1 worker
- Mitie Property Services (UK) Ltd, Bristol, owed £1,226.37 to 1 worker
- Airspeed Tyres & Exhaust Ltd, Ipswich, owed £1,198.75 to 1 worker
- The Dinner Bell Ltd, trading as The Chequers, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, owed £1,190.68 to 1 workers
- Mobile Buddy Ltd, Swansea, owed £1,162.77 to 1 worker
- Mrs Rebecca Hodges & Mr Rob Hodges, trading as Flame Hair Studios, Towcester, Northamptonshire, owed £1,146.46 to 2 workers
- Miss Olivia Smith, trading as The Cutting Rooms, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, owed £1,132.65 to 1 worker
- Crown Care II LLP, North Shields, owed £1,129.74 to 60 workers
- Mr Richard Harris and Mrs Myrtle Harris, trading as Honiton Garage, Honiton, Devon, owed £1,121.55 to 1 worker
- Universal Care Services (UK) Ltd, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, owed £1,085.93 to 7 workers
- Sunnybank Day Nursery Ltd, Leeds, owed £1,083.45 to 2 workers
- Formby Hall Golf Club Ltd, trading as Formby Hall Golf Resort & Spa, Formby, Merseyside, owed £1,047.00 to 1 worker
- Sine Hair & Beauty Salon Ltd, Glasgow, owed £1,027.65 to 1 worker
- JR’s Hairdressing Ltd, Glasgow, owed £1,000.16 to 2 workers
- Ms Lorna Bainbridge, trading as Passion 4 Hair and Beauty, Stockton-on-Tees, owed £997.45 to 2 workers
- Three Points Limited, Bristol, owed £972.64 to 1 worker
- Mrs Rosemary Wight, trading as AJ’S Hair & Beauty Salon, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, owed £972.41 to 1 worker
- Ryce Limited, Fife, owed £935.96 to 1 worker
- Sanctuary Home Care Ltd, Worcester, owed £918.65 to 1 worker
- Interserve FS (UK) Ltd, Dudley, owed £894.03 to 4 workers
- Forest Gate (Corby) Ltd, Corby, Northamptonshire, owed £878.57 to 4 workers
- William Priestley Salon Ltd, Halifax, owed £830.69 to 1 worker
- SGUK Limited, Wolverhampton, owed £809.66 to 1 worker
- Mr Steven Jenkins, trading as Rock Salt Café & Brasserie, Plymouth, owed £779.00 to 2 workers
- Edward Marshall LLP, Chelmsford, Essex, owed £776.50 to 1 worker
- Lifestyle (Abbey Care) Ltd, Richmond, North Yorkshire, owed £775.12 to 1 worker
- Automaster (South Wales) Ltd, Pontyclun, Mid Glamorgan, owed £770.56 to 1 worker
- Thomson ID Ltd, trading as Austen Thomson Hair, Edinburgh, owed £759.32 to 1 worker
- Mead Medical Services Ltd, trading as Lydiafield Care Home, Annan, owed £741.67 to 13 workers
- Ms Sue Newton, trading as Play 2 Learn Day Nursery, Northampton, owed £735.48 to 1 worker
- Brick Peers Ltd, Wells, Somerset, owed £735.25 to 1 worker
- McKinlays Lettings Crewkerne Ltd, Crewkerne, Somerset, owed £713.18 to 1 worker
- Temple Doors Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire, owed £674.98 to 1 worker
- Mr Harpinder Singh Dhamu, trading as Holloway Dental Practice, London, N7, owed £671.37 to 1 worker
- Mr David Curran and Mrs Deborah Curran, trading as Gazeley Stud, Newmarket, Suffolk, owed £646.20 to 1 worker
- Devon Dogs Ltd, Okehampton, Devon, owed £638.49 to 1 worker
- Legal Claimline Ltd, Manchester, owed £612.49 to 1 worker
- Fisher & Donaldson (St Andrews), Cupar, Fife, owed £574.32 to 6 workers
- U K P Leisure Club, Sittingbourne, Kent, owed £566.62 to 1 worker
- Olyness Ltd, trading as The New Westmere Day Nursery, Blackpool, owed £561.96 to 1 worker
- Ms Alison Vallance, trading as Vallance Hair & Beauty, Edinburgh, owed £547.20 to 1 worker
- Murdock Ltd, London, WC2H, owed £546.00 to 1 worker
- Krystal Dry Cleaners Ltd, London, SW16, owed £544.46 to 1 worker
- Blackpool Football Club, Blackpool, owed £517.88 to 1 worker
- Mr Alex Okolidoh & Mrs Victoria Okolidoh, trading as Elite Property Solutions, Norwich, owed £511.20 to 1 worker
- Crown Care IV Ltd, North Shields, owed £505.86 to 25 workers
- 247 Home Rescue Ltd (Named changed to 123 SRS Limited), Accrington, Lancashire, owed £493.05 to 1 worker
- Collective Apparel Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, owed £487.34 to 1 worker
- Mr Robert Louis Craig, trading as Craigs Courier Services, Falkirk, owed £484.90 to 1 worker
- Shiners Property Services Ltd, London, E14, owed £481.36 to 1 worker
- Earn Extra 139 Ltd, Brighouse, West Yorkshire, owed £453.48 to 1 worker
- Morleigh Ltd, trading as Tregertha Court Residential Care Home, Looe, Cornwall, owed £447.98 to 1 worker
- Ebina Ltd, trading as Ebi Sushi, Derby, owed £447.97 to 4 workers
- Dove’s Nest Ltd, Manchester, owed £439.37 to 19 workers
- Zeus Enterprise Ltd, trading as Yieldify, London, EC3R, owed £421.93 to 1 worker
- Ms Tina Hamlin, trading as Mad Hatters, Orpington, Kent, owed £418.73 to 3 workers
- Elite Complete Property Services Ltd, Plymouth, owed £414.85 to 1 worker
- M. J. Electrical. Services. Ltd., Swansea, owed £410.00 to 1 worker
- Toni Saade Ltd, trading as Toni Saade Hair Salon, Newmarket, Suffolk, owe £404.64 to 1 worker
- Salim Uddin Khan, trading as Top Tread Tyres, Exhaust & MOT Centre, High Wycombe, owed £402.25 to 1 worker
- Music Junkie Ltd, Leicester, owed £396.85 to 1 worker
- Mr Kevin Boyd, trading as Billion Hair, Wigan, owed £396.07 to 1 worker
- Scope, London, N7, owed £394.28 to 1 worker
- Legends (Redditch) Ltd, trading as Legends Hair & Beauty Salon, Worcester owed £393.14 to 3 workers
- Suzy Mcs Corporate Catering Ltd, Coventry, owed £392.18 to 1 worker
- Simply Auto Enrolment Solutions Ltd, Bury, Lancashire, owed £390.00 to 1 worker
- Care and Support Shop Ltd, London, E13, owed £389.74 to 28 workers
- Contact Industrial Recruitment Ltd, Urmston, Manchester, owed £378.77 to 64 workers
- Mr Stephen Wallace, trading as The Lunatic Fringe, Canterbury, owed £377.48 to 1 worker
- Pasture Wood Fisheries Ltd, Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, owed £373.95 to 3 workers
- Hollywood Plant Services Ltd, Walsall, owed £372.41 to 1 worker
- Terracotta Foods Ltd, trading as Freddy’s Chicken & Pizza, Northampton, owed £370.80 to 1 worker
- Your Electrical Supplies Services & Solutions (A) Ltd, Normanton, West Yorkshire, owed £369.88 to 2 workers
- SLRS Ltd, trading as Stealth Security, Southampton, owed £366.26 to 1 worker
- Industrial Medical Agency Ltd, Bradford, owed £365.37 to 1 worker
- Le Nantais Bistro (Hove) Ltd, Brighton, owed £362.44 to 1 worker
- Trident Design and Build Ltd, Warwick, owed £360.35 to 2 workers
- Jackson Dairies Ltd, Stockport, owed £355.90 to 3 workers
- Stephen Johnstone & Son Funeral Directors, Chester, owed £347.05 to 1 worker
- Motorbody Accident Repair Centre Ltd, Ambleside, Cumbria, owed £338.27 to 1 worker
- Beezy Beez Day Nursery Ltd, Leicester, owed £334.26 to 1 worker
- Manchester Super Store (Rusholme) Ltd, Manchester, owed £315.50 to 1 worker
- Lakhani Holdings Ltd, trading as Munro Pharmacy, London, E13, owed £312.00 to 1 worker
- The Personnel People Ltd, Norwich, owed £298.58 to 15 workers
- Smart Cool Ltd, Hull, owed £294.71 to 1 worker
- Kent Coach Travel Ltd, Sheerness, owed £294.51 to 1 worker
- Arcadia Care Ltd, Birmingham, owed, £286.00 to 1 worker
- B2B Engage Ltd, Bracknell, owed £282.00 to 1 worker
- Sollertia Limited, Newton Le Willows, Merseyside, owed £271.95 to 1 worker
- Mrs Ruth Elizabeth Goff & Mrs Enid Elizabeth Butt, trading as Cotswold Equine Training, Burford, Oxfordshire, owed £268.72 to 1 worker
- Benkaz Ltd, Shotts, Lanarkshire, owed £266.71 to 1 worker
- Kinza Beauty Lounge Ltd, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, owed £258.30 to 1 worker
- Care 4 U Services (Lincs) Ltd, Lincoln, owed £257.27 to 1 worker
- Mr Anthony Shields, trading as 2CV City, Bradford, owed £252.46 to 1 worker
- Purple Pig Middlesbrough Ltd, Middlesbrough, owed £226.00 to 1 worker
- Fury Murry’s (Paisley) Ltd, Paisley, owed £216.14 to 1 worker
- Greene King Retail Services Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, owed £211.89 to 1 worker
- Consummate Care UK Ltd, Coventry, owed £201.36 to 1 worker
- Professional Print Finishing Services Limited, London, N18, owed £198.25 to 1 worker
- Supreme (UK) Ltd, Woking, owed £197.41 to 1 worker
- Dimples Riverside Day Nursery Ltd, Middlesbrough, owed £195.23 to 5 workers
- Poundstretcher Ltd, Huddersfield, owed £182.94 to 2 workers
- Wood & Co (Leicester) Ltd, Leicester, owed £179.17 to 1 worker
- Pomodoro 1 Ltd, Bewdley, Worcestershire, owed £177.64 to 2 workers
- Mr Isni Balija, trading as Letchworth Hand Car Wash, Letchworth Garden City, owed £173.33 to 1 worker
- Euro Dental Laboratory Services Ltd, Chorley, owed £173.00 to 1 worker
- Plum Buffets Ltd, Coventry, owed £156.00 to 1 worker
- Safe Night Security Ltd, Sunderland, owed £156.00 to 1 worker
- Miss Alison Margaret Smith, trading as AMS Hair & Beauty, Edinburgh, owed £150.00 to 2 workers
- Food n Tipple Ltd, Bolton, owed £148.28 to 1 worker
- Biton System Consultants Ltd, Chelmsford, Essex, owed £145.00 to 1 worker
- Shepherdess Café Ltd, London, EC14, owed £141.70 to 1 worker
- Beau Visage Beauty Ltd, Manchester, owed £141.00 to 1 worker
- Assist Homecare (Scotland) Ltd, Stevenston, Ayrshire, owed £134.21 to 1 worker
- TS Developments Ltd, trading as Imperial Workforce, Darlington, owed £130.30 to 12 workers
- Lifeline Homecare Ltd, Frome, Somerset, owed £130.02 to 3 workers
- IPizza UK Ltd, trading as IPizza, London, W3, owed £130.00 to 1 worker
- Nu U 2 Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, owed £125.57 to 1 worker
- Quest Cleaning Services Ltd, Staverton, Wiltshire, owed £125.13 to 1 worker
- My Home Choice (Essex) Ltd, trading as Bluebird Care Colchester, Colchester, owed £120.53 to 1 worker
- L M Bubble Tea Ltd, trading as Mooboo, Liverpool, owed £117.19 to 1 worker
- Newline Care Home Ltd, Bradford, owed £116.31 to 1 worker
- Peppermint UK Foods Ltd, trading as Subway, Brentwood, owed £107.20 to 1 worker
- Miss Despina Glykeriou and Mrs Jane Waldrum, trading as P W W Ice Cream Supplies, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, owed £106.72 to 1 worker
- Micro Fitness Ltd, Cumbernauld, Glasgow, owed £104.93 to 1 worker
- Silenster Building Services Ltd, Thetford, Norfolk, owed £103.48 to 1 worker
The naming and shaming scheme was revised in October 2013 to make it simpler to name and shame employers that do not comply with minimum wage rules. The 197 cases named today (11 August 2016) were thoroughly investigated by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
Businesses or employees who would like to find out more about the National Minimum Wage should visit www.acas.org.uk/nmw.
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