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Nurseries included on wages ‘naming and shaming’ list

Eight nurseries, featured on the Government's 'naming and shaming' list, are accused of not paying staff the national minimum wage (NMW).
The list, published by BEIS, features employers investigated by HMRC for not paying employees the national minimum wage
The list, published by BEIS, features employers investigated by HMRC for not paying employees the national minimum wage

The settings, based across England and Scotland, are among 191 businesses ‘named and shamed’ by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) for breaking the law by not paying the national minimum wage.

The list, published yesterday (5 August), refers to breaches that took place between 2011 and 2018. Named employers have since been made to pay back what they owed, along with a fine. The Government has been publishing its 'naming and shaming' list since 2013.

Nursery World contacted a number of nurseries on the list for a response.

Caroline Koenig, owner of Walker’s Private Day Nursery in Gloucestershire told Nursery World she had wrongly paid an apprentice after the training provider ‘neglected’ to tell her that after the first year of employment, they must be paid the national minimum wage.

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