{"id":758500,"date":"2026-09-03T07:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758500\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T07:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T07:10:13","slug":"minimum-wage-shame-list-reveals-scottish-firms-that-failed-to-pay-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/758500\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum wage shame list reveals Scottish firms that failed to pay staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Around 2.7 million people in the UK received a pay rise in April as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c36r7jk6093o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">national living wage went up <\/a>by 50p to \u00a312.71 for over 21s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Workers aged 18-20 saw an 85p increase in national minimum wage to \u00a310.85 and under 18s and apprentices got 45p more to \u00a38 an hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For someone working full time, national living wage amounts to \u00a324,784.50 a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some workers do not qualify for either the national minimum wage or national living wage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This includes people who are self-employed, company directors, volunteers, members of the armed forces and prisoners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is a criminal offence for employers not to pay the correct national minimum and living wages to eligible employees. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rates apply even if workers are not paid by the hour. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said: &#8220;The best businesses know that looking after your workers isn&#8217;t just the right thing to do, it&#8217;s the smart thing to do. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Most employers already understand this, and I want to work with them to ensure they have every piece of guidance and support available to help them follow the rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Short-changing your staff isn&#8217;t a shortcut to success and we are determined to stamp it out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around 2.7 million people in the UK received a pay rise in April as the national living wage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-758500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}