Care Workers: Pay and Workplace Pensions
Commons · Question 48546 · Tabled 28 Apr 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record
Answered 7 May 2025
Question
Asked by Navendu Mishra
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to enforce compliance among social care providers based (a) in the UK and (b) abroad that fail to pay (i) wages and (ii) pension contributions.
Answer
Answered by Justin Madders, 7 May 2025
The law is clear: if you are a UK-based worker, you are entitled to rights under UK employment law, regardless of where your employer is based.HMRC enforces the minimum wage on behalf of DBT. It considers all complaints from workers and where it finds und...