HMRC needs more cash to catch more minimum wage crooks

Commenting on the news that HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has secured £4.6m in minimum wage arrears for under-paid staff, including £27,500 from a premier league club, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady said:

“It is shocking that so many employers – including some who pay their star players millions of pounds a year – are cheating low-paid workers out of the minimum wage.

“The penalties won by HMRC – which the government has rightly decided should be even bigger – should be a clear deterrent to any bad boss thinking about short changing their staff. We also need to see more of these immoral companies named and shamed.

“HMRC staff deserve credit for winning back millions of pounds for cheated employees but they need greater resources to catch the many minimum wage crooks still out there.”

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