Yorkshire businesses breaking minimum wage rules named and shamed

The government has today (October 23) revealed the names of over 100 employers across the UK who have paid one or more of their workers less than the National Minimum Wage, which rose earlier this month to £6.70 for most adults aged 21 or over.

Of the 115 businesses in the list 12 were from Yorkshire, collectively owing more than £38.5k to underpaid workers.

The region’s companies named were:

• Project Security UK Ltd in Doncaster - owed £23,857.11 to 18 workers
• D A Elliott Farriers Ltd in Whitby - owed £7,516.44 to three workers
• Giscombe Brown Ltd (Nuba Hair & Beauty) in Sheffield - owed £2,071.68 to two workers
• Assess to Progress Ltd in Pudsey - owed £1,286.76 to three workers
• Xercise4less (Wakefield) Ltd in Wakefield - owed £751.29 to one worker
• MAC Repair Ltd in Leeds - owed £715.68 to one worker
• Lynsey Sellars (La Belle Health & Beauty) in Leeds - owed £659.40 to one worker
• The Square Bar & Restaurant Ltd in Harrogate - owed £437.02 to one worker
• Nightingale Social Care Staffing Agency Ltd in Barnsley - owed £405.47 to one worker
• Storm Commercials Ltd in Monk Bretton - owed £342.40 to one worker
• Susan Turner (The Belle Air Hairdressing Salon) in Wakefield - owed £261.91 to two workers
• Commply (Yorkshire) Ltd in Leeds - owed £260.37 to seven workers

In the last two years, over £1.1m in arrears has been owed to underpaid workers all over the UK, with the collective penalties totalling more than £513k.

Commenting on the issue, Business Minister Nick Boles said: “Employers that fail to pay the minimum wage hurt the living standards of the lowest paid and their families.

“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.

He continued: “Next April we will introduce a new National Living Wage which will mean a £900-a-year pay rise for someone working full time on the minimum wage and we will enforce this equally robustly.”

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