Government launches minimum wage crackdown

Employers who fail to pay staff the national minimum wage face unlimited fines from next year as part of a new Government campaign.

Business Secretary Lord Mandelson helped launch the campaign with a Downing Street roadshow which will travel the UK, advising workers on their entitlements, and telling them how to complain if they have been underpaid.

The Government is cracking down on employers paying below the statutory hourly rate, set at the start of last month, of:

£5.73 for wor... (240 more words)

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