Rogue employers named and shamed for failing to pay minimum wage The 139 named companies failed to pay £6.7 million to over 95,000 workers. From: 139 companies, including major household names, have short-changed their employees and have been fined offending firms failed to pay £6.7 million to their workers, in a completely unacceptable breach of employment law Business Minister Paul Scully says the list should be a ‘wake-up call’ to rogue bosses, as department relaunches naming scheme after 2-year pause Almost 140 companies, including some of the UK’s biggest household names, are being named and shamed today for failing to pay their workers the minimum wage.