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Capita, Pizza Express, Lidl among 500 firms named for underpaying minimum wage

30 May 2025
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Capita, Pizza Express, Lidl and British Airways are among more than 500 companies publicly named and shamed by the UK government for failing to pay thousands of staff the legal minimum wage.

The Department for Business and Trade on Thursday published a list of 518 employers who collectively owed £7.4 million to nearly 60,000 workers. The underpayments were identified through HMRC investigations spanning from 2015 to 2022. In addition to repaying workers, the named firms faced financial penalties of up to 200 per cent of the amounts underpaid.

Justin Madders, the minister for employment rights, said the government would not tolerate employers undercutting staff. “There is no excuse for employers to undercut their workers,” he said. “We will continue to name companies who break the law and don’t pay their employees what they are owed.”

At the top of the list was outsourcing giant Capita, which failed to correctly pay 5,543 workers, owing a total of £1.15 million. The company said the shortfall was due to “inadvertent underpayments” stemming from issues including unpaid pre-shift login time for call centre staff between 2015 and 2021. Capita said all owed wages had been repaid immediately and system changes had been implemented to prevent a recurrence.

Restaurant chain Pizza Express was second on the list, having underpaid 8,470 employees a total of £760,701 between 2012 and 2018. A spokesperson said the issue arose from a “historic unintentional technicality”, and confirmed the company had “swiftly identified who was impacted, apologised and rectified” the matter.

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