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<p><del class="ministerial">60 employers responded to the National Minimum Wage campaign
announced by HM Revenue and Customs on 29 July 2015. Between them, these employers
voluntarily disclosed arrears of £786,038 owed to 4869 workers.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">In
2015/16 819 employers were issued with a Notice of Underpayment (NoU), and of this
number, 814 were issued with a penalty. The combined penalties issued to these employers
totalled £1,780,367.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">5 employers were issued
with an NoU but no penalty because they had either gone into liquidation or had otherwise
ceased trading, or because an Employment Tribunal had issued a judgment that no financial
penalty should be imposed. Collectively these employers owed £57,603 to 30 workers.
</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">A further 145 employers found to have underpaid
their workers were not issued with a NoU or a penalty. Collectively these employers
owed £2,065,874 to 14,055 workers.</ins></p>
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