BA and Pizza Express among companies that could not pay the minimum wage | Minimum wage

Pizza Express, British respiratory tract And the Outsourcing Firmgroup Capita are among the leading companies named by the government because they have not paid some of its employees the minimum wage.

According to investigations by HM Revenue and Customs, more than 60,000 with low -paid workers received a return worth 7.4 million GBP after 518 employers had not reached the legal minimum wage.

The German-owned supermarket chain Lidl and Halfords were also on one List of guilty “name and shame” Exhibited by the Department of Economic Affairs and Trade.

The investigations were carried out between 2015 and 2022, but were only recently completed and all declines agreed, so that the publication of the full list made it possible to publish the full list, said a spokesman for the department.

Capita, one of the government’s largest contractors, was the worst perpetrator: it could not pay 1.5 million GBP to 5,543 employees.

A Capita spokesman said that “accidental outpasses” were responsible between 2015 and 2021, as problems with adding 25 minutes per week for call center employees can register for their layers.

“All owes of funds were paid immediately, and we are sorry for all the effects that these colleagues and former colleagues had at that time,” added the company.

“Our processes and systems have been updated to ensure that there would be no other problems. We continued to carefully monitor them and all changes to the employment regulations.”

Pizza Express did not pay £ 760,702 to 8,470 GBP, which corresponds to about 90 GBP on average.

A spokesman for Pizza Express said: “After we had informed ourselves about this historical unintentional technical technology that took place between 2012 and 2018, we quickly found who was affected, apologized and remedied.

“There is nothing more important to us than paying our team members pretty much and precisely.”

British Airways was named so that it did not pay 231,276 GBP to 2,165 workers. The company said that an exam in 2017 showed that “we accidentally underpaid some of our cable crews, which had come to us between 2014 and 2017, in the first two months of employment.

“We apologized and spent a few years ago.”

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A spokesman for Halfords said: “The tariffs we pay our colleagues are competitive and are in the minimum wage or over the minimum wage. In 2021, however, we found some historical work -related costs that we should be earned as an employer. We quickly moved to identify the affected people to make the necessary payments.

“All associated costs are now made by the company,” they added.

Paul Nowak, the Secretary General of TUC, said the ministers vigorously examined the violations of minimum wage rules.

“Wage theft is bad for workers, families and the economy,” he said. “Every pound that was stolen from the pocket of a worker is a pound that is not spent in local shops, cafés and high street.”

The “national livelihood” for workers aged 21 and over increased in April from £ 11.44 per hour to £ 12.21 per hour.