{"id":2965,"date":"2017-02-17T13:19:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T13:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:33","slug":"employers-who-underpay-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2017\/02\/17\/employers-who-underpay-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Employers who underpay workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/record-number-of-employers-named-and-shamed-for-underpaying-more-than-15500-workers\">UK government has released a list of 350 employers<\/a> who failed to the minimum wage . The page also has facts on the key industrial sectors concerned.<\/p>\n<p>For evidence about low pay in the UK See the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/low-pay-commission\">\u00a0Low Pay Commission website<\/a> which has reports and national minimum wage calculator.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/employmentandlabourmarket\/peopleinwork\/earningsandworkinghours\/bulletins\/lowpay\/previousReleases\">Office for National Statistics has bulletins<\/a> on the number of employee jobs with pay less than the National Minimum Wage or the new National Living Wage in the UK.\u00a0 It also has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/employmentandlabourmarket\/peopleinwork\/earningsandworkinghours\/bulletins\/lowpay\/previousReleases\">statistics on average working hours and pay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/employmentandlabourmarket\/peopleinwork\/earningsandworkinghours\/articles\/contractswithnoguaranteedhours\/2015-09-02\">table on zero hours contracts from 2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government has released a list of 350 employers who failed to the minimum wage . The page also has facts on the key industrial sectors concerned. For evidence about low pay in the UK See the\u00a0Low Pay Commission website which has reports and national minimum wage calculator. The Office for National Statistics has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15,9],"tags":[93,147],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management","category-sociology","category-labour-market-studies","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2966,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions\/2966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}