According to the Mirror the fast-food chain Greggs failed to pay minimum wage to 4,793 employees. They were due £45.72 This issue was fixed very promptly by Greggs.
As they have underpaid their employees, they have been charged financial penalties up to 200%.
The Mirror said Greggs stated: “During a review with HMRC (HM Revenue & Customs), it was brought to our attention that our uniform policy for retail colleagues was not aligned with HMRC’s interpretation of national minimum wage regulations, and as a result, we revised our uniform policy in January 2018. Once the review was concluded, we reimbursed colleagues and former colleagues who had been impacted by this unintended error.”
Greggs is a big employer as it pays 21,500 employees in the UK. These employees could have been struggling for money when some had failed to of been paid their minimum wages they were expected.
By Maisie Yr8
Boston High School
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Well, who knew?! Good job they were quick to rectify their mistakes for their employees.
What does this even mean? “uniform policy”? Wow. Their real error expecting to take the cost of their uniforms out of a wage that is not even the recommended “living wage”. What were analysts expecting their last pre-tax profit to be… £1.8BN?