Property News · April 3, 2014

The worst excuses for not paying the minimum wage


HMRC comes across some pretty lame excuses during its investigations into employers who pay below the national minimum wage …Fifteen years after the launch of the national minimum wage some employers still view paying it to their workers as a choice and offer elaborate excuses when caught out, according to HM Revenue & Customs, which has published a list of some of the worst.One employer claimed that a worker was his wife but then had to ask her name. Another claimed that their employees didn’t speak English, so were not entitled to the minimum wage, while others simply tried to deny an underpaid employee worked there at all, the Revenue said. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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