Justice written question – answered at on 21 July 2014.
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.
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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