Retailers and hairdressers among companies named and shamed for wage breaches
Retail premises were among the businesses that broke minimum wage laws (Jane Barlow/PA)
Hairdressers, hotels, retailers and an amusement park are among the Scottish businesses “named and shamed” by the UK Government for breaking the minimum wage law.
The breaches by the 22 companies took place between 2013 and 2018.
A total of £31,000 was found to be owed to 209 workers after investigations by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.
The businesses have been made to pay back what they owe, and were fined an additional £46,000.
Among the companies named are J Ren Ltd, trading as Mooboo, a bubble tea shop in Glasgow’s St Enoch Shopping Centre.
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The breaches by the 22 companies took place between 2013 and 2018. A total of £31,000 was found to be owed to 209 workers after investigations by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. The businesses have been made to pay back what they owe, and were fined an additional £46,000. Among the companies named are J Ren Ltd, trading as Mooboo, a bubble tea shop in Glasgow’s St Enoch Shopping Centre. It owed £3114 to 24 workers between 2014 and 2017. John Codona’s Pleasure Fairs Limited, which runs Codona’s Amusement Park in Aberdeen, owed more than £1318 to 90 workers between March and November 2017. Ian Littlewood, a member of the management team at the amusement park, said the company “do pay the minimum wage – 100%”.
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