Tag: Minimum living wage
UK McDonald’s staff to make history in first ever strike | Daily Mail Online
Staff at outlets in Crayford, London (pictured) and Cambridge will walk out in a row over conditions and the use of zero-hour contracts. Unions are demanding a £10-an-hour minimum wage.
Source: UK McDonald’s staff to make history in first ever strike | Daily Mail Online
Pay row threatens overnight care for vulnerable | DisabledGo News and Blog
for a long time they must pay sleep-in staff at least the minimum wage.
Source: Pay row threatens overnight care for vulnerable | DisabledGo News and Blog
Think tank warns of ‘dishonest’ Labour tax plans | Daily Mail Online
Labour will raise taxes in the UK to their highest level since just after the Second World War – and ordinary families will take a hit, economists said yesterday.
Source: Think tank warns of ‘dishonest’ Labour tax plans | Daily Mail Online
Theresa May is set to ban unpaid internships in latest Cameron snub: Prime Minister considers forcing employers to pay school leavers looking for work experience the minimum wage : Daily Mail.
In-work poverty is the real crisis facing Theresa May
In the main I do agree with this article, but to further understand the problem, in-work needs to be further described. Over the years many good wage/salary jobs have been lost and while other jobs or employment prospects have been created, but just what are they. Many are on the Minimum Living Wage (MLW) or lower and for how many hours per day or week are these jobs for, as it may be they are only for a few hours per day or week. Then for some it is not even that, for they may be on zero hours contracts where there is no guarranteed hours and the persons may not have actual paid work for weeks.
For those who are on MLW what deductions do they have to suffer and other practices, to look at Sports Direct for example and there will be others.
So Theresa May you have a job on your hands, not counting all the other crises that are already about and others yet to come. To look after just the wealthy is not the answer, for we are all in the UK and everyone of us should be counted.
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Families are still struggling to meet basic needs
Source: In-work poverty is the real crisis facing Theresa May
Living wage will lead to new boom in migrants, claim Eurosceptics | Politics | The Guardian
Tory critics brand David Cameron’s strategy ‘a farce’ and say pay boost will draw ever more workers to the UK
Source: Living wage will lead to new boom in migrants, claim Eurosceptics | Politics | The Guardian
These businesses have been named and shamed for failing to pay their workers the minimum wage
Original post from Wales Online
‘………..BY CHRIS KELSEY
Some major high street names are among the businesses, which also include several from around Wales
Eleven companies in Wales are among more than 100 across the UK who are named and shamed by the Government today for failing to pay workers the minimum wage.
The businesses, one of which has ceased trading, come from all over Wales and include garages, a coach business, a hairdresser and a branch of the YCMA.
Between them the 11 employers underpaid 13 workers a total of £13,567.
There are well-known national firms on the list, including Monsoon Accessorize Ltd, which owns both the high street chains.
Across the UK as a whole, 115 companies failed to pay their staff the minimum wage in sectors including retail, hairdressing, education, catering and social care.
The £389,000 they underpaid their workers by has already been paid back and the firms will have to pay penalties following investigations by HM Revenue and Customs.
More than 400 employers have now been named and shamed since ministers launched the scheme two years ago, with total arrears of £1.1m and penalties of more than £500,000.
Among the firms named today the ones with the biggest bills for underpayment include Monsoon Accessorize Ltd which owed £104,000 to 1,400 workers, Tyne & Wear Riding for the Disabled Association (£27,000 to six workers), Project Security in Doncaster (£23,000 to 18 workers) and Carl Keith Salons, Prescot, Merseyside, (£20,000 to five workers).
‘National living wage will be enforced robustly’
Others named included hairdressers, a taxi firm, hotels, a nursery school and a funeral director.
Business minister Nick Boles said: “Employers who fail to pay the minimum wage hurt the living standards of the lowest paid and their families.”
He pledged that the new national living wage of £7.20 an hour for over 25-year-olds from next April will be enforced “equally robustly” as the minimum wage, currently £6.70.
TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said: “It’s good to see that the Government is naming and shaming more companies who pay their employees less than the minimum wage.
“However, today’s list of offenders is only the tip of the iceberg. Many more employers are getting away with illegal underpayment.”
The Welsh companies named and shamed today are:
- Solex Systems Ltd (ceased trading), Broughton, neglected to pay £5,978.17 to 3 workers
- Elgan Davies Ltd, Cardigan, neglected to pay £2,312.62 to 1 worker
- Nichola Crosby, trading as Beyond The Fringe, Cwmbran, neglected to pay £1,687.91 to 1 worker
- Young Men’s Christian Association Bargoed and District Branch, Bargoed, neglected to pay £1,372.12 to 1 worker
- KJM Autos Ltd, Hengoed, neglected to pay £736.12 to 1 worker
- Ceredigion Couriers Ltd, Machynlleth, neglected to pay £620.55 to 1 worker
- Forward Life Ltd, Swansea, neglected to pay £286.00 to 1 worker
- D K Forecourts Ltd, trading as Texaco Garage, Caerphilly, neglected to pay £156.00 to 1 worker
- Coach Travel Wales Ltd, trading as Coach Travel Wales, Aberystwyth, neglected to pay £153.52 to 1 worker
- D K Forecourts Ltd, trading as Pavilion Garage, Pontypool, neglected to pay £151.44 to 1 worker
- Mark Gosling, trading as Regency Autos, Penarth, neglected to pay £116.76 to 1 worker
Read more:
Do jobs where you live pay the living wage? Nearly 300,000 jobs in Wales don’t
The Welsh employers flying the flag for the Living Wage
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