A VALE of Glamorgan business has been named for underpaying workers.

M Camilleri and Sons Roofing Limited of Sully failed to pay £1,150.68 to 11 workers, a UK Government investigation found.

A total of 17 Welsh employers named for underpaying around 40 workers the national minimum or living wage and employers across the UK have been fined a record £1.9 million for underpaying minimum wage rates More than 13,000 of the UK’s lowest paid workers will get around £2m in back pay as part of the government’s scheme to name employers who have failed to pay the national minimum wage and living wage.

The department for business, energy and industrial strategy has published a list of 233 businesses that underpaid workers.

Since 2013, the scheme has identified £6 million back pay for 40,000 workers, with 1,200 employers fined £4 million.

Marco Camilleri, director of M Camilleri and Sons Roofing Limited said: "In 2016 HMRC examined payments made to staff between April 2013, and March 2016, and found that, during this time, we inadvertently underpaid a total of £1,150.68 to 11 of our employees, which was an average underpayment of around £100 per employee spread over the three-year period.

"Following the discovery of this genuine error, all of the affected workers were immediately reimbursed in full, and procedures put in place to prevent this happening again.

Secretary of state for Wales Alun Cairns said: "While most employers get it right, it is simply not acceptable that some employers in Wales are failing to pay at least the minimum wage their workers are entitled to.

"The UK Government is determined to make sure everybody in work receives a fair wage and to building an economy that works for all.

"April’s increase in the national minimum and living wage rates is putting more money into the pockets of Wales’ lowest paid workers than ever before.

"Excuses for not paying employees what they are legally owed will not be tolerated."