Crackdown on national minimum wage non-compliance

Small and medium-sized businesses are being targeted as part of a crackdown by HMRC on non-compliance with the national minimum wage (NMW).

HMRC has confirmed that so far in 2024-25 it has worked with businesses and workers in the Merseyside and Cheshire districts of Liverpool Sefton Halton St Helens and Knowsley.

It is currently in contact with businesses across the north east - County Durham Stockton Middlesbrough Gateshead Sunderland Newcastle Northumberland Redcar and Cleveland. Later in August it will move its support and focus to workers in the same area.

Non-compliant businesses will be ordered to pay NMW arrears to workers in addition to increased National Insurance contributions (NICs).

Kyle Newton head of national minimum wage at Azets UK said: ‘Maintaining compliance with NMW is commonly misunderstood with the calculation made up of several components...