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If you think access to legal advice in respect of the minimum wage is difficult for lawyers then think what it is like for a sacked, discriminated, disabled worker, who, having to wait for the wheels of justice to slowly turn, gets his judgment, after having to LIP everything, but disagrees with parts of it, i.e. the judge has made, apparently, several errors in law. He has not received his award, because the respondent has not cooperated at all through the process, and is continuing to be bloody minded.

In the meantime, between being dismissed and the hearing, he finds another job, but, directly because of his disability, he is, after 3 months, dismissed by this second firm. He now has to fund, with no money, an appeal and a second claim and possible incur other costs for, for example, bailiffs. How?

The minimum wage legislation is a little complex, but lawyers are pretty smart. But, had the lawyers not tried to apply what they, wrongly, thought to be the letter of the law, and paid fairly, or, did the right thing, then they would not have been in trouble.

I remember a number of years ago now employing a young girl, about 14, I think she was, we got permission from her school for her part-time Saturday job, but I refused to pay her less than an adult minimum wage (over 21) because she was doing the same job as an adult. Do the right thing and the law will not bite you.