British list highlights bizarre boss excuses against minimum wage
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London, Jan. 11, 2017 (dpa/NAN) British bosses have been known to argue that their workers aren’t good enough to deserve the minimum wage on Wednesday.
Similarly, that foreigner isn’t entitled to the same pay as British nationals when caught out for underpaying staff.
Don’t do that, warns a new publication from the British government more importantly, don’t use any of the excuses it helpfully shares and, if you’re an employee, don’t accept those excuses, it urges.
Now, a list of 10 of the most ludicrous excuses for flouting minimum wage laws has been published by the British government, in a bid to get workers to recognise their legal rights as employees.
One unscrupulous boss said the law didn’t apply to their workers as the employees “like to think of themselves as self-employed’’.
“While a shop owner claimed his employees were only technically working when customers needed to be served when the shop was empty they were on standby’’, He said.
“I thought it was ok to pay foreign workers below the national minimum wage as they aren’t British and therefore don’t have the right to be paid it,’’ another argued.
By law, all workers in Britain must be paid the minimum wage or living wage, depending on their age.
The current national minimum wage of 5.55 pounds (6.73 dollars) kicks in when workers hit the legal school leaving age of 18, and increases for those aged 21 to 24.
A national living wage of 7.20 pounds was introduced in April 2016 and only applies to workers aged 25 or over. (dpa/NAN)
(Edited by Abigael Joshua/Julius Enehikhuere)