[Football] Minimum wage dodgers

[Gwylan]

The government has published a list of shame of businesses who have failed to pay the minimum wage to employees. There are quite a few football clubs on there but there's no surprise that one of them is Portsmouth #twats

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/employers-named-and-shamed-for-paying-less-than-minimum-wage

(the other named clubs are Sheffield Utd, Oldham, Charlton, Crewe and Coventry - surprised that Massive and Palace aren't on the list)

 

[beorhthelm]

careful, BHA were on the list couple years back. its a consequence of how they evaluate trainees pay and allowances.

 

[Gwylan]

careful, BHA were on the list couple years back. its a consequence of how they evaluate trainees pay and allowances.

Yeah, I hadn't realised it was a regular update - although if football clubs are regularly on it, you'd think that they'd have learned their lesson by now

As an aside, I'm amused to see that my local chippie is on the list. That may be why they've had such difficulty attracting people to work for them

 

[schmunk]

When large employers are on this list it's usually for an honest error rather than intentional skullduggery.

For example, a lower-paid employee takes childcare vouchers or joins the cycle to work scheme and 'sacrifices' taxable salary for a non-taxable benefit, instantly making their pay appear lower.

There's a whole consultancy industry active in spotting these potential pitfalls and avoiding them - e.g. John Lewis would far rather have paid the £1M to its workers than be named-and-shamed here.