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Title: 37% illegally underpaid Author: Workers Solidarity Movement Date: 1994 Language: en Topics: workplace struggles, Ireland, Workers Solidarity Source: Retrieved on 18th November 2021 from http://struggle.ws/ws94/pay43.html Notes: Published in Workers Solidarity No. 43 — Autumn 1994.
WAGES COUNCILS, which used to set minimum wages in badly paid industries
like catering, in Northern Ireland & Britain are no more. As reported in
the last edition of Workers Solidarity they were abolished by the Tories
on February 7^(th).
Latest figures from the Low Pay Network show that, just before their
abolition, over 37% of the workplaces visited by wages inspectors were
illegally underpaying staff. However there were only 12 prosecutions (so
much for Tory huffing and puffing about “the law must be obeyed”). In
another survey one in five vacancies offered in job centres were below
the minimum wages set by the wage councils