• You also need to enforce any minimum or living wage.
    Remember the leisurely HMRC 'discussions' that came to light when
    Mike Ashley appeared in front of the HoC Business Committee?

  • Yes. And I do wonder if the party leaders know something we don't – like that 'enforcement' just isn't really possible, even with a funded police force?

  • Yes. And I do wonder if the party leaders know something we don't – like that 'enforcement' just isn't really possible, even with a funded police force?

    You'd need to make it something that could be reported to HMRC by the worker, which would trigger an immediate forensic audit of the employer.

    If the employer was paying the correct wage then the employee loses their job (and likely will find it hard to get a new one), if the employer was found to not be paying the correct wage then some sort of crippling fine/other scorched earth penalty.

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