Synopsis
Panorama goes undercover to reveal how some employers exploit loopholes or get round the rules so that their workers are paid below the National Minimum Wage.
- Programme: Panorama
- Episode: All Work and Low Pay
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2011
- Sociology | What are the main patterns and trends in social inequality and difference? | Social inequality and differences linked to social class, gender and ethnicity
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