Record number of UK workers paid below minimum wage – report

About 440,000 people paid illegally, with female workers more affected than men
A record number of workers in the UK are being paid less than the minimum wage, a report has found.An estimated 439,000 people were illegally paid below the hourly minimum wage in April last year, including 369,000 who are supposed to receive the “national living wage” because they are aged 25 or over. The NLW figure was 30,000 more than the previous year and the highest since it was introduced in 2016. C