Wage against the machine
October 11th, 2007
Posted by Cptn
As we were digging around on the Government News Network, we tripped this story from the start of the month: “Torbay Council was fined £1,000 with £500 costs and found guilty of neglecting to produce appropriate records to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) compliance officers. Officers were attempting to establish whether council workers in the Parks and Leisure department have received the National Minimum Wage.
“The council was prosecuted by the Revenue & Customs Prosecutions Office (RCPO) for ‘neglecting to supply information’ required under the National Minimum Wage Act.”
Now, isn’t that applying free market ideals a little too stringently to public services?
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