{"id":59466,"date":"2018-09-22T01:01:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T23:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/09\/22\/ministers-urged-to-get-tough-on-minimum-wage-offenders\/"},"modified":"2018-09-22T01:01:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T23:01:06","slug":"ministers-urged-to-get-tough-on-minimum-wage-offenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=59466","title":{"rendered":"Ministers urged to get tough on minimum wage offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Companies were fined only \u00a314m in year when staff were underpaid by \u00a315.6mMinisters have been urged to impose tougher penalties on companies that pay their staff below the minimum wage after it emerged that the government fined companies only \u00a314m in a year when rogue employers underpaid their staff by \u00a315.6m. It is a criminal offence not to pay the minimum wage, and the maximum fine is 200% of every penny underpaid. Firms found in breach must also repay staff all the money they are owed. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/sep\/22\/ministers-urged-to-get-tough-on-minimum-wage-offenders\" target=\"_blank\">Ministers urged to get tough on minimum wage offenders<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies were fined only \u00a314m in year when staff were underpaid by \u00a315.6mMinisters have been urged to impose tougher penalties on companies that pay their staff below the minimum wage after it emerged that the government fined companies only \u00a314m in a year when rogue employers underpaid their staff by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}