Many are famous British businessIncluding Pizza Express, Lidl, British Airways and Capita, some employees have been identified by the government to fail to pay minimum wages.
Trade and Trade Department (DBT) A list of 518 employers released It undertakes about 60,000 workers in many years.
Underpayments meant that some employees paid National minimum wage reducedOr the wages of national living, which the government calls the minimum wage for people above 21 years of age.
Capita, a major government supplier, At the top of the list, £ 1.15 million to 5,543 workers. It is reduced to individual employees on average by £ 208.
A Capita spokesperson said it was “unknown underpages” between 2015 and 2021, due to some issues, adding 25 minutes per week to the call center employees, which log in to log in to their innings.
The company said, “All outstanding funds were paid immediately, and we are sorry for any influence on colleagues and former colleagues at that time.”
“Our procedures and systems were updated to ensure that there would be no further problem; we have continued to monitor any changes in the employment rules carefully, as well as any change in employment rules.”
The Pizza Express failed to pay 8,470 workers from £ 760,702 – an amount of about £ 90 on average.
A spokesperson of the Pizza Express said: “Once we were made aware of this historical unknown technology, which took place between 2012 and 2018, we quickly identified who influenced and improved who influenced him.
“There is nothing more important for us than to pay the members of our team properly and accurately.”
LIDL was also high in the list, outstanding 3,423 employees from £ 286,437.
And the British Airways was nominated to fail to pay 2,165 workers from £ 231,276.
A BA spokesperson said: “Back in 2017, an audit revealed that we had accidentally reduced some of our cabin crew, who joined us between 2014 and 2017 during their first two months of employment.
“We apologized many years ago and released back payment.”
Meanwhile, small groups of employees were reduced to a large amount by some British companies – such as Hotel Chen Hilton UK which reduced employees of 20 members to an average of £ 946 on an average.
Restaurant Chain Prezo, Motoring and Cycling Retailer Hafords, and Travel Group TUI were also reducing some workers for many years.
After investigation by HMRC between 2015 and 2022, all workers will be repaid to a combined £ 7.4 million.
The National Living Wage was £ 11.44 in the year by the end of March, and has increased to £ 12.21 since April.
The minimum wage for children of the 18–20-year children increased to £ 10 this year, and for people under 18 it increased to £ 7.55.
Employment Rights Minister Justin Maders said: “There is no excuse for employers to reduce their workers, and we will continue the names of companies that break the laws and do not pay their employees who are their outstanding arrears.”
The government said that not all minimum wages are intentionally underpet, but those who do not pay the employees correctly will be punished.
On Thursday, the nominated businesses faced financial penalty up to 200% of the total amount.
Lidl has been approached for comment.
