London (CNN Business) Britain's largest supermarket chain Tesco underpaid almost 80,000 of its workers, the UK government has revealed, as it "named and shamed" dozens of companies for not paying the minimum wage. A total of 139 companies failed to pay £6.7 million ($9.1 million) to thousands of workers, the government said Thursday. The current minimum wage in the United Kingdom is £8.72 ($11.91) for workers aged 25 and over. Tesco TSCDF , which has more than 3,700 stores in the United Kingdom and Ireland and nearly 7,000 stores worldwide, was by far the worst offender. The retailer did not pay 78,199 workers the minimum wage, according to the list , owing them more than £5 million ($6.8 million).

Source: CNN December 31, 2020 13:18 UTC