Paying award rates is a requirement of all companies, but in reality many small and medium businesses don’t. Small business pay under the table, offering certa

Paying award rates is a requirement of all companies, but in reality many small and medium businesses don’t. Small business pay under the table, offering certain perks to employees that make them OK with the arrangement. Medium businesses use “contractors” where workers like delivery drivers aren’t employees but individuals (or sole traders) working under piecework contracts. Neither of these are reported to any data-collecting body. (which is the point I was trying to make above but I got a bit side-tracked!)