The recent BEIS list of minimum wage offenders contains some major names. Tesco, Pizza Hut and Home Grown Hotels (part owned by Jim Ratcliffe who has a fortune of some £12bn) are among those cited. This is yet another stinking example of the scourge of inequality in this country (or partly in it as Ratcliffe has scarpered to Monaco). All three companies claimed their breaches of the law were inadvertent but isn't it really rather sickening that their pay regimes are so pathetic that they should even accidentally cross the threshold. Furthermore the "excuse" that Ratcliffe doesn't have involvement in the day-to-day running of the hotel chain just does not wash. He, presumably, profits by his ownership - he should take steps to ensure that those profits have at least a fig-leaf's worth of ethical practice associated with them.
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