Sports Direct and Mencap – two employers in the news who have breached minimum wage law, two drastically different treatments. Sports Direct is castigated as exploitative of its workers, with its continued use of zero-hours contracts the latest scandal (Sports Direct chairman faces new investor pressure to go, 6 September). Mencap has celebrity backing and a prominent campaign asking the government to bail it, and other providers, out for underpaying their frontline staff for years (Report, 6 September). The pages of zero-hours vacancies on its website go unmentioned. Message to Mike Ashley: keep your working practices, change your sector and no one will bat an eyelid.
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