Nursery World - National Minimum Wage

Nine nurseries have been ‘named and shamed’ on the latest minimum wage offenders list. How did they get there, and how easy was it to fall foul of the rules? Ruth Stokes reports

Each year, the Government publishes a list of all those business which haven't complied with the minimum wage. This August's was the largest ever – with nearly 200 offenders, nine of which are nurseries.

A number were members of the National Day Nurseries Association, which says that while nurseries have a responsibility to ensure they understand the law, a number are ending up on the list inadvertently because of confusion over the intricacies of payment rules. Some owners have branded the list 'draconian'.

Little Beehive Nursery in Fife appears on the Government's list of offenders because it owed £9,065.14 to seven workers, but director Jennifer Martin says that the underpayment was an unintentional error relating to apprenticeships.

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