A TAXI firm, bar and restaurant, and hairdressers are among the Scots firms named and shamed in a Government crackdown on companies which underpay workers.
The 115 companies exposed for failing to pay the minimum wage include firms working in sectors such as retail, education, catering and social care.
Ian and Caroline Balfour, trading as A E Taxis in Kirkcaldy, neglected to pay £4,757.59 to three workers.
In Glasgow, SCC Leisure Ltd, trading as Bar Soba, neglected to pay £2,015.82 to one worker and Norma Clark Hair & Beauty Ltd did not pay £1,391.32 to one employee.
In Clydebank, Margaret Jankowitz, trading as The Beeches Hair Studio, neglected to pay £3,283.36 to three workers.
And in Hamilton, U & T Ltd, trading as The Sweet Spot, neglected to pay £482.64 to two workers.
Business Minister Nick Boles said: “Employers who fail to pay the minimum wage hurt the living standards of the lowest paid and their families.”
He pledged that the new national living wage of £7.20 an hour for over 25-year-olds from next April will be enforced “equally robustly” as the minimum wage, currently £6.70.
Monsoon Accessorize was named earlier as the biggest culprit on the list of companies who failed to pay the national minimum wage.
The retailer owed £104,000 to 1,400 workers.
More than 400 employers have now been named and shamed since ministers launched the scheme two years ago, with total arrears of £1.1 million and penalties of over £500,000.
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