24/02/2015

Five Firms 'Not Paying Minimum Wage'

Five Northern Irish companies have been named in a government list of firms failing to pay their staff the UK minimum wage.

The five NI firms join a list of seventy others who do not pay the standard minimum wage for workers over 21, which stands at £6.50 per hour.

The five companies are:

• Manleys Ltd, Belfast

• Julie Ann Wright, trading as The Worx, Portadown

• Phillip and Lorraine Campbell, trading as Supervalu, Kells, Ballymena

• Grove Mechanical Services Ltd, Magherafelt

• Kevin and Bernadette Farrell, trading as Derrygonnelly Autos, County Fermanagh.

The publication of business names is part of a series of new rules aimed at "cracking down" on companies not complying with the law.

(MH/CD)

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