Name & Shame - good or bad?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...iness-37048374
Good or bad?
Most likely good IMO however, it could destroy a good business if used improperly.

Read it and thought do I really need to know that AMS Health and Beauty owed 2 employees £150? What's the point.

Who knows that the background story is and what happened.

Seems like a waste of time and money.

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Originally Posted by johnbc70

Read it and thought do I really need to know that AMS Health and Beauty owed 2 employees £150? What's the point.

Who knows that the background story is and what happened.

Seems like a waste of time and money.

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You might not need to know but businesses underpaying staff will hopefully take action to ensure they don't get similar adverse publicity.

From the list the type of business seems to be quite wide ranging. So no matter who you work for employees can feel they can get protection from unscrupulous employers.

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Originally Posted by Jack

You might not need to know but businesses underpaying staff will hopefully take action to ensure they don't get similar adverse publicity.

From the list the type of business seems to be quite wide ranging. So no matter who you work for employees can feel they can get protection from unscrupulous employers.

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What I did not understand is what I read was a list of businesses that owe money to employees, not employers that pay below minimum wage. Unless the money these business owe is the shortfall between what they should have been paid and what they were paid.

Just a bit strange and not sure what it ultimately achieves.

While we're at it we should make the minimum wage equal regardless of age.