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The naming and shaming of five employers who breached minimum wage laws is a good start but more needs to be done, the TUC said yesterday.
The government said the naming of the individuals was a "clear warning" to employers, but the trade union group said more action was needed in terms of enforcement.
Five employers from Macclesfield, Manchester, Edinburgh, Middlesbrough and Carmarthen "neglected" to pay workers sums ranging from £225 to £1,700.
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
