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A growing number of people earn less than ­minimum wage with up to two million workers short changed, a report claims.

The Taxman found a record 98,150 staff were paid below the minimum in 2016-17.

This was 69 per cent up on the previous year.

But the House of Commons Library, which produced Minimum Wage: Cracks in the Floor, found unpaid overtime and travel time between jobs as well as deductions for uniforms pushed it up to one to two million.

The current minimum wage of £7.50 an hour for workers aged 25 and over rises to £7.83 in April.

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Labour Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey, said: “It’s shocking some employers are still skirting the law by not paying their workers the full national minimum wage.

"The Government hasn’t done enough to stop employers denying workers their rightful pay, which is grossly unfair to workers but also unfair to the employers who do play by the rules.”

Labour has vowed a Real Living Wage of at least £10 an hour by 2020 and to help firms achieve this.