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Businesses failing to pay the minimum wage

Graham Watson

15th February 2017

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A number of well known high street stores have failed to pay the National Minimum Wage and have been named and shamed.

However, more shockingly, " The Office for National Statistics has calculated that 362,000 jobs did not pay the NMW in April 2016."

That is a pretty significant number.

Read the background article here


Find more statistics at Statista

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Graham Watson

Graham Watson has taught Economics for over twenty years. He contributes to Tutor2U, reads voraciously and is interested in all aspects of Teaching and Learning.

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