“We have put in place a new system of calculation that the HMRC has said it is happy with. “We thought we were paying the right amount and the HMRC found that we weren’t,” she said. Kate Ashley, a director of Pembrokeshire Care, a home care company in rural west Wales that underpaid 154 carers by £55,000, said the company had miscalculated the amount of travel time their employees should be paid to get to their mostly elderly clients Those working in retail and the social care sector were next most likely to be underpaid. The restaurateur answered the phone but refused to respond and passed the phone to a colleague, who said only: “We have nothing to say.” The company said the problem had occurred while it was dealing with family crises.Ĭontacted at his luxury Knightsbridge restaurant this week, Berni declined to comment. Only last year Berni’s Wimbledon eatery, which is a favourite haunt of tennis stars including Boris Becker, was forced to pay back almost £100,000 to 30 other employees. Lorenzo Berni was found to have underpaid 29 workers by more than £53,000 at his upmarket Knightsbridge restaurant Osteria San Lorenzo. Hospitality businesses, including restaurants and hotels, feature in the list most often for underpaying their staff, with 84 employers underpaying 563 workers in total. It was found to have underpaid a housekeeper by more than £11,000 over a number of years. Tasman Ltd, a Harley Street property company that lets space to doctors and dental practices, was the worst offender. The error by Debenhams is embarrassing, but many businesses were found to have underpaid individual staff members by thousands of pounds. We have apologised to all our colleagues affected and have taken steps to ensure it cannot happen again.” The company said it had underpaid staff by an average £10 each in 2015 because of a “technical error in its payroll calculations”.Ī spokesman for the department store said: “As a responsible employer Debenhams is committed to the national minimum wage, and as soon as the error was identified by a routine HMRC audit last year we reimbursed all those affected. The company was hit with a £63,000 fine and forced to pay back nearly £135,000 to nearly 12,000 workers. worse than b4.Debenhams was named as the most prolific offender since the naming and shaming system came into force in 2013. Last week spoke to pal who had taken his van in to get it tracked, he said that he had had the exact same experience.no print out!. Took it back to C.Hurst and demanded that they actually did job this time, two weeks and several telephone calls to Belfast, they sent a guy down who re-did its alot better now but not perfect!

Paid for my wheels to be tracked as i had just got two new tyres elsewhere, paid them £50 and asked for a print out! They said what print out? Rang their Belfast Headquarters and they said i should have been given a print out! drove car and could'nt take hands of steering wheel otherwise the car would have swung straight into the left verge! Took it to another mechanic and the first thing he checked was the tyre pressures.

I would as an add on to this advise avoid Charles Hurst in Coleraine. It's not a big deal and can't be seen but I told them in no uncertain terms that their attitude was a disgrace (very loudly across the place) and that I wouldn't be back near them.

I didn't ask for anything other than to acknowledge they'd been less than careful with the car and apologise but their attitude was basically we didn't do it and you can't prove otherwise. He denied the arm had been against the skirt and I pointed out that I had watched him remove it and checked the car in front of his eyes. There was a small indentation and of course I pointed it out to the guy.

I waited 'til the car came down and the arm removed andd, in front of the fitter, I ran my finger along the skirt where the arm had been. New tyre fitted but when the car was on the ramp I noticed the arm was very tight to the sideskirt. The wifes Bravo had a puncture and the wife hadn't noticed so the tyre was knackered (lots of black dust when the tyre came off). Just to warn you guys that I had a bad experiance at the Carrick branch of Magowans this morning.

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