Was your employer named for underpaying the minimum wage?

If your employer has been named for paying below the minimum wage, you should be able to find the record without reading through years of government lists. Search by the legal name on your payslip, a trading name, or the town or postcode area published in the list.

Naming is the government’s public record of employers found to have underpaid the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage. The date shown is when the government published the name, not necessarily when the underpayment happened. A listing is not proof that your own pay was wrong. No listing is not proof that it was right.

What to do if you think you are underpaid

1. Save your payslips and count your hours. Keep rotas, clocking records, messages and deductions somewhere you control. Include required unpaid time, such as work before clocking in or travel between care visits where it counts as working time. Check the employer’s legal name on your payslip, not just the name over the door.
2. Check each pay reference period. This is the period the payment covers, usually a week or a month, and no longer than one calendar month. Compare qualifying pay with the hours that count and the minimum wage rate applying at the start of that period. Uniform costs and salary sacrifice can reduce pay for this calculation. Tips do not make up the minimum wage. A later month’s higher pay does not cancel an earlier shortfall. Our minimum wage guide explains how to check your pay.
3. Report it, whether or not your employer is listed. Use the pay and work rights complaint form to report suspected underpayment to HMRC, which investigates minimum wage cases on behalf of the Fair Work Agency. You can report anonymously, or ask HMRC not to identify you to the employer. The form explains how to request confidentiality. A union or adviser can help you report; you can complain after leaving the job. Your employer may still guess who complained, so get advice if you fear retaliation.
4. Check the tribunal deadline now. In Great Britain, a minimum wage shortfall can be claimed as an unlawful deduction from wages. The ordinary limit is six months less one day where the relevant payday, or last deduction in a legally linked series, is on or after 1 October 2026. Earlier relevant dates keep the three-month limit. Notify Acas for early conciliation within the original limit; conciliation can change the filing deadline, but a grievance or an HMRC complaint does not stop that clock. Use our tribunal deadline calculator and get the dates checked by Acas, your union or Citizens Advice. Northern Ireland has a separate tribunal and Labour Relations Agency route; the calculator does not cover it.

Get advice before choosing the route. GOV.UK says HMRC cannot take a minimum wage complaint forward if you have already started tribunal action for that issue. Reporting and making a tribunal claim are not interchangeable. Do not let the deadline pass while you wait for an investigation.

About this data

This tool contains 5,277 employer listings from 24 government naming rounds, published between 28 February 2014 and 3 September 2026. We compiled the government’s press releases and official employer lists. Each search result links to the GOV.UK source for its round. You can also read the latest government naming list. The data was last updated on 8 October 2026.

The caveat matters: naming covers arrears that HMRC (since April 2026, the Fair Work Agency) identified and the employer has repaid. Some breaches are technical, such as deductions for uniforms, salary sacrifice or unpaid time, rather than deliberate underpayment. Do not read a listing as proof that every named employer acted deliberately, or that it is underpaying now.

The headline totals are 5,277 employer listings, £66,919,762 in arrears identified and 654,277 worker underpayments. Some employer names appear in more than one round. Worker totals add the workers affected in each listing, so the same worker may be counted more than once. Arrears are not fines.

Locations and sector labels come from the published lists. A location may be a town, county or postcode area, not every branch where the employer operates. Some early records include location only within the employer name. Sectors were recorded from February 2017 onward; blank or unknown sectors are grouped as “Not recorded”. Equivalent sector labels that differ only in case or punctuation share a filter. We have not inferred missing locations or sectors. Results are capped at 50, with a count of all matching records, newest naming rounds first.

This is a historical naming search, not a register of every employer that has underpaid. It cannot tell you whether your current pay meets the law. Check your minimum wage entitlement, keep the evidence and use the reporting route if you think money is missing.