Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when the next National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme list for companies failing to pay National Minimum Wage will be published.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Shadow Minister without Portfolio
Publicly naming employers who do not comply with the rules remains an important part of our enforcement and compliance toolkit. It clearly demonstrates that it is never acceptable to underpay workers and that employers who do will be held responsible.
To date we have named around 2,500 employers, covering around £20.8 million in arrears and £24.1 million in penalties. The Government last named 208 employers on 8 December 2021, including some of the UK’s biggest household names. The next National Minimum Wage Naming Scheme list will be published in due course.
Asked by: Justin Madders (Labour - Ellesmere Port and Bromborough)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill 2022-23, whether her Department is taking steps to ensure that workers requested to work by a work notice will have a protection from (a) unfair dismissal and (b) other employment sanctions where an individual needs to leave their place of work in the context of section 44(1A) of the Employment Rights Act 1996.
Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Shadow Minister without Portfolio
Section 44(1A) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 provides that workers have the right not to suffer detriment for refusing to work in circumstances where the worker reasonably believed they were in serious and imminent danger. Section 100(1)(d) also provides protection to employees from dismissal in those circumstances. If an employee has been named on a work notice, in order for a minimum service level to be achieved, they will continue to be able to rely on section 44(1A) to protect them from detriment and section 100(1)(d) to protect them from dismissal for refusing to work because they reasonably believe that they are in serious and imminent danger as they do now.