Minimum Wage

Justice written question – answered at on 21 July 2014.

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Photo of Emily Thornberry Emily Thornberry Shadow Attorney General

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many employment tribunals have taken place relating to under-payment of the minimum wage in (a) 2013-14 and (b) each of the previous five financial years; and how many such tribunals found in favour of the employee.

Photo of Shailesh Vara Shailesh Vara The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice

The National Minimum Wage jurisdiction relates to suffering a detriment and or/dismissal related to failure to pay the minimum wage or allow access to records. The data is given in the following table. This information is published in Tribunals Statistics Quarterly, available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/tribunal-statistics-quarterly-january-to-march-2014

Employment Tribunals involving National Minimum Wage, 2009-10 to 2013-14
  2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14
Total Employment Tribunals disposed 112,364 122,792 110,769 107,420 148,387
Claims involving the National Minimum Wage jurisdiction 414 599 520 496 381
Proportion of National Minimum Wage claims that were successful at hearing (percentage) 12 13 15 15 17

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