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Nursery fined for breaking pay law
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
5 September 2007
A nursery owner is the first-ever person to be prosecuted for breaking the National Minimum Wage (NMW) laws.
Teresa Aguda, owner of Rascals Day Nursery in Walthamstow, London, was fined £2,500 and ordered to pay £500 in costs in a case brought by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). The case was heard at Waltham Forest Magistrates Court last Tuesday. Mrs Aguda pleaded guilty to the charge of obstruction for preventing HMRC compliance officers from accessing nursery staff records to try to establish whether she was paying workers the NMW. Judge Gott said Mrs Aguda 'had demonstrated a clear and deliberate...
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