An Ayr salon owner is amongst 22 Scottish businesses ‘named and shamed’ for breaking national minimum wage law.
Riccardo Corvi, trading as Rainbow Room International Ayr, on the town’s Cathcart Street, failed to pay £1,119.32 to three workers between May 2013 and February 2015.
The salon owner was included, alongside other Rainbow Room International (RRI) salons, in the UK Government's Department for Business’s publication which was released today in which they 'named and shame' employers.
Rainbow Room International said the shortfall was down to a clerical error and has now been repaid in full
The report highlights the average arrears owed per worker was £373.11.
More than £5,000 was owed to 32 people working for branches of Rainbow Room International in Bearsden, Ayr, Glasgow’s George Square and Royal Exchange Square.
Employers have since been made to pay back what they owed.
Minimum wage breaches can often occur by accident when workers are paid on or just above the minimum wage rate, and then have deductions from their pay for uniform or accommodation.
Other RRI branches listed for breaking national minimum wage laws were Brittain & McMail Limited, which ran the salon in George Square, who underpaid 16 workers a total of £2,923.25 between April 2013 and January 2016.
Eight workers employed by Janine McMahon at the Bearsden salon between September 2013 and March 2016 were underpaid a total of £652.34.
And Fleeson and Robb Limited, which runs the Royal Exchange Square branch in Glasgow, owed a total of £597.70 to five people who worked there between September 2013 and March 2015.
RRI founders Alan and Linda Stewart have 12 salons in Scotland, and were awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours List this year for Services to Hairdressing.
A spokesperson for Rainbow Room International said: “This claim is a historical matter dating back to 2016, caused by a clerical error, which was picked up, investigated by us and was self-declared to HMRC and all monies were paid in full.
“We would stress that there was never any intent to underpay our employees.”
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