by Will | May 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
‘For the Retail, Hospitality, Leisure and Care sectors, the way we work and engage with customers has either changed for ever or it will be a very long time before we can return to any degree of normality.’ With the UK lockdown extended to at least 11th May, other...
by Will | Apr 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Having recently reflected on the impact of the minimum wage on employment over the last ten years, it struck me just how brilliant the retail, leisure and hospitality sectors have been at creating work whilst supporting a rise in minimum wage to 60% of median...
by Will | Apr 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
On the 1st April 2010, almost exactly ten years after ShopWorks began providing cloud-based work force management software, the UK National Minimum Wage increased to £8.72 per hour for over 25s. This got me thinking and I checked out the minimum wage from 2010 and it...
by Will | Jul 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Another 239 employers have been named and shamed by Government this week in the UK for underpaying the National Minimum Wage. National chains such as Odeon & UCI Cinema Group and Wyevale Garden Centre have been identified as failing to pay their staff the correct...
by Will | Jul 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
Retailers affected by high business rates and inflation struggling to make ends meet. It is expected that over 50,000 jobs have been lost on Britain’s high streets during the first half of this year. With national chains such as Maplin, Toys R Us and Poundworld...
by Will | Dec 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
This week, the government released a third ‘name and shame’ list of businesses that have failed to pay their staff National Minimum Wage since April 2016. As part of that list, HMRC have recorded some of the genuine excuses given by the businesses in...
