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A NORTH TYNE hotel and restaurant which was one of 139 companies nationally to have been named and fined by government for failing to pay workers the National Minimum Wage has rectified its wrongdoing after it claimed it was a ‘genuine error.’ Preystone Property Investments Limited, trading as the Battlesteads Hotel and Restaurant, in Wark, was said to have underpaid £9,767.15 to a total of 26 workers some time between 2016 and 2018. However, a spokesperson for the company has said the breach had been unintentional and it had since paid the necessary amounts to staff. The spokesperson said: “In 2017 the business was contacted by the NMW enforcement team to undertake a random spot check.
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.”