direct to your inboxTesco has responded after being "named and shamed" alongside 139 other companies for failing to pay minimum wage.Scores of companies have been named by the government for failing to pay workers the minimum wage, including the supermarket giant.Ministers said 139 companies have short-changed their employees and have been fined.Offending firms failed to pay £6.7 million to their workers, in a "completely unacceptable breach of employment law", said the Business Department.Tesco said it was "disappointed and surprised" to have been named.
The company said it had identified a technical issue in 2017 that meant some workers' pay "inadvertently" fell below the national minimum wage, adding that all those affected had been.
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