What: John Lewis was named by the government as an employer that pays staff below the legal minimum wage.

Why it is important: John Lewis claims that they disagree with the allegations as they just tried to help employees budget so they offered hourly workers a monthly rate, which would sometimes result in more or less pay per hour depending on the month. They claim that the average minimum hourly pay has never fallen below the minimum wage.

The list of offenders and their infractions are either larger organizations, like John Lewis, where a large amount of staff were impacted involving relatively small sums of money, or smaller organizations with few staff members involving much bigger losses.

John Lewis on ‘named and shamed’ list for breaching minimum wage