200,000 people receive back pay after National Minimum Wage crackdown

More than 200,000 people have received a total of £15.6m in pay previously denied to them by employers paying less than the minimum wage.

Thanks to a government crackdown which included naming and shaming offenders, HM Revenue and Customs more than doubled the number of underpaid workers receiving money they’re owed by law, new figures show.

The number of workers complaining about minimum wage breaches soared 132 per cent after an online complaints service was launched in January last year with restaurants, bars, hotels and hairdressers emerging as some of the worst offenders, HMRC said.