Retail giant Debenhams and a Scottish football club have been named and shamed by the UK Government for failing to pay the national minimum wage.
Scottish Championship strugglers St Mirren is one of 16 employers north of the border to be included onthe latest list of national minum wage offenders.
The data shows the club with outstanding arrears of £1,277 relating to a single employee.
Crossroads Caring Scotland of Clackmannashire has the largest arrears in Scotland with a £17,685 liability relating to 40 workers.
The worst offender nationally was high street giant Debenhams, which was found to have failed to pay £134,894 to 11,858 UK workers.
Peacock Stores – which has outlets in Tayside and Fife – owed 42 workers a total of £2.256.
Perth Honda is on the list with a £474 shortfall relating to one employee.
The dealership’s finance director Ian Johnston declined to comment when approached by The Courier.
The figures are part of wider list of 360 British employers that have named by the UK Government in what is the largest ever disclosure of national minimum and living wage offenders.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said the firms collectively underpaid 15,520 workers almost £1 million.
Amongthe excuses for underpayment were the use of tips to top up pay and making staff pay for their own uniforms.
As well as recovering arrears for some low paid workers, HMRC issued penalties of around £800,000 to errant employers.
For the first time, the list includes employers who failed to pay eligible workers at least the new National Living Wage rate, which is currently £7.20 for workers aged 25 and over.
UK Government Minister for Scotland Lord Dunlop said: “There are simply no excuses for employers who fail to play by the rules and pay employees what they are entitled to.
“We are committed to building an economy that works for everyone, and will ensure that everybody receives the National Living Wage.”