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Big Tech firms paying below minimum wage left off UK government’s name-and-shame list

Deliveroo, Uber and Amazon were excluded because couriers are classed as self-employed, but legal experts say drivers can’t challenge low pay themselves

By Adam Bychawski
Big Tech firms paying below minimum wage left off UK government’s name-and-shame list
Some Deliveroo riders have reportedly earned as little as £2 an hour. | Clare Jackson / Alamy Stock Photo, all rights reserved.
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The UK government has been criticised for failing to take action against Big Tech companies who pay less than the minimum wage.

In a list released on Thursday, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy ‘named and shamed’ almost 200 companies for breaching minimum wage laws between 2011 and 2018. 

The companies on the list, which included national retail chains John Lewis and Pret A Manger, owed a total of £2.1m to more than 34,000 workers. They had also been fined an additional £3.2m over a seven-year period.

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