Reporting illegal practice of employer? How?

Hmm, I'd try to forgive and forget.

I know a lot of places that work like that, but in my honest opinion theres no point in reporting them. You are their our of your own free will for just little extra cash, so dont complain just quit. Dont get me wrong I dont like to see people getting exploited wrongly but in your case it just seems stupid.

I know refugees who work for less and much harder, they cant quit because they need that money to live, so your scenario just pisses me off.

Pisses u off? y?!

I mean they are BREAKING the LAW by paying the ppl that work there under the national minimum. And jus cos there are other ppl breaking the law (by underpaying refugees etc) dosnt mean this isnt worth reporting.

I mean if no one took any action, then these ppl can do wotever they want and pay however much they want to the ppl that work for them.. Then wot would even b the point of having a national wage?

I understand more then you would ever know about under paid exploitation. Its just your case that pisses me off, I am not siding with the resturant but when someone like you has an easy choice to quit, you should do just that. From sounds of it they were just messing you about hours and perhaps pay but they were never abusing you. Before you sneakly go off an report them ruining their business it would be better if you spoke to them face to face about such issues. The fact is you knew it was no-contract job that paid below minimum wage BEFORE you worked there .

I did speak to them before I starting working. Guess wot they said? They said tough... u can work here or not...

And im not jus doing this for my self, in many chinese resteraunts there are illegal immirgants (and som of the ppl there look like it, e.g. dosent speak english, etc etc). U think this is fair on them? And if they are breaking the law, y shouldnt their business suffer for it?

If there is no employment contract then, I'm sorry to say, no putative 'law' can have been 'broken' as you put it because no-one is 'employed': you are not, as such, an 'employee'; and will be accordingly deemed to possess no legally actionable contractual rights. Also, try to bear in mind that the discrepancy cuts both ways, and for obvious reasons.

If they said tough and you didnt like it, you should have took the latter option. Like i've said in every one of my posts I am not supporting exploitation its just your case, you should forget it. I know some people work under terrible conditions and no its not right. But I think you will find the majority of the imigrants dont have a work visa to work in the UK so such jobs benefit them and their employer.

If there is no employment contract then, I'm sorry to say, no putative 'law' can have been 'broken' as you put it because no-one is 'employed': you are not, as such, an 'employee'; and will be accordingly deemed to possess no legally actionable contractual rights. Also, try to bear in mind that the discrepancy cuts both ways, and for obvious reasons.

Emm... Interesting? So I should forget about it? No I didnt like it, but I took the job for various reasons. But having made my plans for the day, and then for them to say they want me to work, then cancelling my plans and going, only for them to blow me off jus cos the resteraunt got a little quieter... imagin this happening everytime you were there?

It not jus my case.. the majority of the ppl that work there cant even speak out even if they are exploited... so no one should voice their concerns?
By your line of thinking, there would be no minimum wage, no maximum working hours etc and we'd have a employment system as that of the 19th century where the employers paid you wotever they damn wanted and could sack you whenever they fancied it.

And I donno how I can be blamed as doing the wrong thing if I report a breach of law. Think about it, I can quit cos I have a family who will support me here. wot about the other people? they have no employment contract, so they have absolutely NO rights as a employee, no health benefits, no holidays, NOTHING. THe owner could jus tell the chef who may have worked there for 5 years to get out, and he would have no way of even filing a complaint. Also, this is London, it would be very difficult for a person to make a living earning 3.50 an hour, especailly if most of the employees would have to take a bus to work. And imagin if the owner blew off half his staff (which he certainly might have done before) whenever the store wasnt full of guests? Could u make a living on such low wages and be constantly threatened by the prosepect of only being able to work 1/2 your hours? As a employee, you would have to make yourself available to work at the hours the owner dictated (this might involve putting off other jobs etc) and if he said you can go after only 1/2 the time, well that jus tough?

No im not doing this only for myself. And jus cos losing this job dosent mean I would be sleeping on the streets, it not a reason for dismissing it.

I think the only mistake I made was not walking out wen they told me the wages and reporting them then.

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I mean a employer would have to be pretty stupid if he asked u to sign a contract which stated that he would be paying you less than the national minimum wouldnt he?
So this kinda cases could never be proven then?

But the crap thing is, the owners are right bastards.

It not jus my case.. the majority of the ppl that work there cant even speak out even if they are exploited... so no one should voice their concerns?
By your line of thinking, there would be no minimum wage, no maximum working hours etc and we'd have a employment system as that of the 19th century where the employers paid you wotever they damn wanted and could sack you whenever they fancied it.

And I donno how I can be blamed as doing the wrong thing if I report a breach of law. Think about it, I can quit cos I have a family who will support me here. wot about the other people? they have no employment contract, so they have absolutely NO rights as a employee, no health benefits, no holidays, NOTHING. THe owner could jus tell the chef who may have worked there for 5 years to get out, and he would have no way of even filing a complaint. Also, this is London, it would be very difficult for a person to make a living earning 3.50 an hour, especailly if most of the employees would have to take a bus to work. And imagin if the owner blew off half his staff (which he certainly might have done before) whenever the store wasnt full of guests? Could u make a living on such low wages and be constantly threatened by the prosepect of only being able to work 1/2 your hours? As a employee, you would have to make yourself available to work at the hours the owner dictated (this might involve putting off other jobs etc) and if he said you can go after only 1/2 the time, well that jus tough?

If there is no employment contract then, I'm sorry to say, no putative 'law' can have been 'broken' as you put it because no-one is 'employed': you are not, as such, an 'employee'; and will be accordingly deemed to possess no legally actionable contractual rights. Also, try to bear in mind that the discrepancy cuts both ways, and for obvious reasons.