\n Worcester Theatres Charitable Trust Ltd, Stanfield Nursing Home Limited, and Modus Agency Ltd owed staff \u00a314,611 between them for underpaying a total of eight workers.\n<\/p>\n
\n The companies were among more than 650 businesses found to have failed to pay the national minimum wage to employees, according to the Department for Business.\n<\/p>\n
\n Worcester Theatres Charitable Trust, which operates Huntingdon Hall and Swan Theatre, was found to have underpaid an employee \u00a3572.37 between July 2023 and March 2024.\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesperson for Worcester Theatres said: “This matter has been resolved and the affected employee was compensated in full.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Worcester Theatres is committed to ensuring all employees are paid correctly and in accordance with national minimum wage regulations.\n<\/p>\n
\n Stanfield Nursing Home Limited, were found to have owed \u00a32,260.23 to three workers, for underpayments made between March 2023 and September 2024.\n<\/p>\n
\n This is an average of \u00a3753.41 per employee.\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesperson for PH Care Group, which now operates the Stanfield House care home, said the company acquired Stanfield House Nursing Home on November 7, 2025.\n<\/p>\n
\n Because the minimum wage underpayments took place more than a year before they took over, they were unable to comment on whether the employees had been compensated.\n<\/p>\n
\n The third business, Modus Agency Limited, failed to pay four of its employees \u00a311,778.49, an average of \u00a32,944.62 each, between May 2020 and October 2022.\n<\/p>\n
\n According to Companies House, Modus Agency Ltd was dissolved in July.\n<\/p>\n
\n A statement of affairs showed the company owed creditors more than \u00a3141,000 just days before liquidators were appointed in August 2024.\n<\/p>\n
\n It is not known whether the \u00a311,778 owed was ever paid to the employees.\n<\/p>\n
\n Several national companies operating in Worcestershire were also revealed to have underpaid staff.\n<\/p>\n
\n B&Q was found to have underpaid 4,530 workers \u00a3456,934.72, the most of any company featured on the list.\n<\/p>\n
\n Five Guys and Serco were also found to have owed employees \u00a354,642.47 and \u00a336,303.02, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Worcester Theatres Charitable Trust Ltd, Stanfield Nursing Home Limited, and Modus Agency Ltd owed staff \u00a314,611 between them…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-762630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762630","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=762630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}