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A Sheffield butcher's shop has been told to pay more than £11,000 to two former employees after a hearing found it had not been paying the national minimum wage.
David Jackson and his daughter Pauline Smout, of Jackson's Butchers, Chaucer Road, Sheffield, pleaded guilty to not paying the two ex-workers the set standard of pay.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) said Mr Jackson and Ms Smout were the first employers in Yorkshire to face criminal prosecution for national minimum wage offences.
In sentencing the pair deputy district judge Hatton said: "The appalling way you treated these employees meant that both [employees] lost out. The simple fact was that they are entitled to this money, and they will get it"
HMRC officials said the judgement "sends a message" to employers that those who breach wage rules would be pursued.
Sheffield magistrates' court fined Jackson £700 plus costs, and ordered him to pay £9,065.85 in compensation to the two former employees. Smout was fined £100 plus costs, and ordered to pay £2,009.74 in compensation.
The national minimum wage rate for workers aged 22 and over will increase from £5.52 per hour to £5.73 per hour from October 1st.
