A FAMILY-OWNED Derry business which makes log cabins has been fined for not paying a member of staff the National Living and Minimum Wage.
Oak Grove Cabins Ltd, based in the Maydown Industrial Estate, failed to pay £2,728.35 to one worker.
Roe Park Holdings Limited, trading as Roe Park Resort in Limavady, failed to pay £3,399.28 to 46 workers.
More than £38,000 was owed to 222 employees in the North of Ireland.
The back pay identified by HMRC was for more workers than in any previous single naming list.
The earliest underpayment dated back to 2011, with the most recent happening in 2018.
The full list of employers, by council area, is:
Mr Oliver Kerr, trading as Origin Fresh, Fermanagh and Omagh, failed to pay £10,317.95 to 3 workers
Oak Grove Cabins Ltd, Derry City and Strabane, failed to pay £2,728.35 to 1 worker
Mrs April Louise Thompson and Miss Nicola Frances Thompson, trading as Baby Maids, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, failed to pay £3,283.65 to 18 workers
Dromore Diocesan Trust, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, failed to pay £3,844.98 to 3 workers,
Hypersync Limited, Newry, Mourne and Down, failed to pay £1,518 to 1 worker,
Mr George Nicholl, trading as Nicholl Plaster Mouldings, Lisburn and Castlereagh, failed to pay £281.70 to 1 worker
Trackars Limited, Belfast, failed to pay £3,334.55 to 23 workers
Sunnymead (Armagh) Limited, trading as Sunnymead Residential Home, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, failed to pay £6,507.01 to 76 workers
Roe Park Holdings Limited, trading as Roe Park Resort, Causeway Coast and Glens, failed to pay £3,399.28 to 46 workers
The Tilery Limited, trading as The Tilery Nursing Home, Fermanagh and Omagh, failed to pay £2,423.50 to 33 workers
Exact CNC (NI) Ltd, Newry, Mourne and Down, failed to pay £576.16 to 17 workers, with average arrears of £33.89 per worker.
Secretary Karen Bradley said the government was delivering the National Living and Minimum Wage for every worker in Northern Ireland.
“It is only right that thanks to government investigations, 222 people in Northern Ireland will get the back pay they deserve,” she said.
The top five reasons for underpayments were:
Taking deductions from wages for costs such as uniforms
Underpaying apprentices
Failing to pay travel time
Misusing the accommodation offset
Using the wrong time periods for calculating pay
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