Petition Increase penalties for minimum wage cheats and more vigorously prosecute them.

The minimum wage is important, not only to the low paid but to all wage earners. Failure to vigorously pursue minimum wage cheats has the effect of depressing wages at every level. It is essential to recognize that forcing workers into false self-employment is a common tactic of cheating employers.

More details

https://www.facebook.com/endlowpayabuse/

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

312 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 312 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Show on a map the geographical breakdown of signatures by constituency

10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 8 August 2016
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.