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 intent to obstruct officers and this was a scandalous breach of the national minimum wage legislation'.
A spokesperson for HMRC said, 'We don't know if Mrs Aguda has been paying the NMW or not. We will try to gain access to the nursery to look at the records.'
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