When Nigel Farage declared that young people should be paid less, George Madgwick leapt to his defence.
Madgwick, a restaurateur and Reform’s most senior councillor in Portsmouth, told the radio station LBC young people were being paid too much and were priced out of jobs. He admitted that reducing the minimum wage for those under 21 would be unpopular, but said politicians “need to start being honest with the general population”.
But what he didn’t disclose was that employment tribunals have found that some of his own companies failed to pay employees wages and holiday pay.
In total, two of his businesses have been ordered to pay 4,386 to former employees for breaching employment law. Madgwick told the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) he is contesting the tribunals’ rulings, which he says were made without the companies having opportunity to defend the claims. So far his businesses have not paid the sums awarded to his former staff.
A recent TBIJ investigation found that thousands of people who have won cases against their employers have not been paid what they are owed, even after the government intervened.
According to one of the judgments, an employee of Madgwick’s Signature by the Wicks restaurant, was unable to claim maternity pay because it had failed to provide her with a contract or pay statements.
The tribunal ordered the business to pay 1,800 to make up for the unpaid maternity pay, as well as 400 in unpaid wages and 1,120 in unpaid holiday pay.
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