Fines For Evading Minimum Wage

16 May 2007
Department of Trade and Industry Press Release
Employers face minimum wage fines
The Government is to target cheating employers with a new regime of fines if they pay below the national minimum wage.

In a consultation starting today the Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling will propose options including fixed penalty fines linked to the number of workers underpaid.

It is also proposed that for the first time businesses would have to pay interest or other cash to workers they have underpaid on top of repaying arrears, so the workforce are no longer giving "interest free loans" to their employers.