By IANS,
London : Scottish cash machine manufacturer NCR is facing accusations of paying its Indian workers less than the national minimum wage.
Dundee West MP Jim Mcgovern claimed workers from India at the multinational company’s Dundee plant were being paid 2.80 pounds ($5.57) per hour, equivalent to their wages back home. The national average is 5.52 pounds.
Mcgovern also said the company transferred 10 workers from India to Scotland before announcing plans to cut 51 jobs at the plant. Even the jobs of the foreign workers are now under question, reported the BBC.
Mcgovern said: “It is disgraceful for NCR to expect the Indian employees they have brought over to live in Dundee on £2.80 per hour. I am also having a meeting with Liam Byrne, minister of state for immigration, this week to discuss the possible immigration issues involved.”
NCR issued a statement saying the employees from India were in Dundee for training, not to replace any employees in Scotland and “are unconnected with the proposed redundancies at Dundee”. It flatly denied they were being paid lower wages.
It added: “NCR manufactures at a number of sites globally. As part of our normal operations, it is necessary to bring a few employees from those global sites to work temporarily at NCR’s new product introduction manufacturing facility in Dundee on the products they will be transitioning to their location and to other global sites.”