Linda and Alan Stewart, founders of the Rainbow Room chain, were delighted to receive OBEs in the New Year Honours List A couple who were made OBEs in the New Year Honours list are directors of a hairdressing business which failed to pay workers the minimum wage, an investigation by HMRC has found. Alan and Linda Stewart were made Officers of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours list. Their Rainbow Room hairdressers in Glasgow’s Royal Exchange Square failed to pay £851.70 to six workers between 2016 and 2018. The couple founded Rainbow Room -International which has 12 salons around Glasgow and the west of Scotland.
A COUPLE who were made OBEs in the New Year Honours List are directors of a hairdressing business which failed to pay workers the minimum wage, according to an investigation by HMRC. Alan and Linda Stewart were made Officers of the Order of the British Empire. Their Rainbow Room hairdressers in Glasgow’s Royal Exchange Square failed to pay £851.70 to six workers between 2016 and 2018. The couple founded Rainbow Room International, which has 12 salons around Glasgow and the west of Scotland. The salon’s website describes the owners as a “formidable force in the hairdressing industry”, adding: “As well as building Scotland’s largest salon group, they have maintained the business’s high standards and reputation for hairdressing excellence.”