Welfare Reform on the Web (December 2001): Minimum Wage - UK

MANY EMPLOYERS FAILING TO PAY MINIMUM WAGE

C. Adams

Financial Times, Oct. 1^st 2001, p. 12

Research by the TUC has shown that up to 170,000 workers in Britain's "grey" economy are being exploited by unscrupulous employers who deliberately flout the law by not paying the national minimum wage. Young workers and women are most at risk.