£1.44m in back pay has been identified for 22,400 workers across all those companies, with reasons such as deducting the cost of uniforms or failing to pay for travel time.
Two Christian companies were on the list. Methodist Guild Holidays Limited, trading as Christian Guild, are a multi-denominational Christian holiday organisation and were listed as having failed to pay £29,255.09 to 136 workers, with average arrears of £215.11 per worker.
The second was The Christian Conference Trust, who provide buildings for events such as church weekends away and charity talks. They were listed as having failed to pay £15,479.62 to 28 workers, with average arrears of £552.84 per worker.
Premier contacted both to understand what caused them to be on the list and both responded.
John Moffoot MBE, the Chair of the Christian Guild, said: “The first things to say is that none of the Christian Guild staff who were on the national minimum wage were ever underpaid their annual salary. What the national minimum wage audit has shown is that where that happens – and staff elected to be paid monthly – in those months where there are 31 days in a month they are technically being underpaid even though they’ve got a twelfth of their salary. It’s a very technical thing.
“We’ve reimbursed all the staff who were affected by the technical underpayment, we’ve revised our pay processes so it…
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