Neither Ronald McConnachie, owner of Bay Newsagents in Wemyss Bay, Renfrewshire, or Macdonald Hotels was available for comment.
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The Government says all of the money owed to these workers has now been paid to them.
A list of 198 companies was published, and between them they owed £466,219 in arrears.
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said: “Businesses across Scotland need to play fair with their staff. It’s not on, and it is right that they are made an example of”.
San Lorenzo, an Italian restaurant in Wimbledon, London, topped the United Kingdom list with £99,541.98 outstanding in arrears to 30 workers.
Blackpool Football Club owed £517.88 to one worker, while Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club owed £2,861.64 to one worker.
The national living wage of £7.20 an hour for workers aged 25 and over was introduced in April.
“Enforcement of the National Minimum Wage is absolutely critical to protect the interests of compliant businesses as well as individual workers”.
Since the National Minimum wage scheme was introduced in October 2013, 688 employers have been named and shamed, with total arrears of more than £3.5 million. Other Scots firms embarrassed included the Little Beehive Nursery, in Newport-on-Tay, Fife, which owed £9,065 to seven workers.
“This government is determined to build an economy that works for everyone, not just the privileged few. Our names have been traipsed through the mud and it’s an honest mistake”.
It is the responsibility of every employer to ensure that their staff are paid what they are entitled to.
He was then told he had to pay more money to the employee because he left after 13 weeks, outside the 12-week window when staff can be paid the apprentice rate before starting the course. He said even though he’s working, he’s still eligible for public aid due to wages of about $8 an hour.
A spokeswoman said: “All payment shortfalls have been paid and our internal systems have been reviewed”.
Twenty-three percent of workers making $50,000-$99,999, and 51 percent of those making less than $50,000 feel they usually or always do to make ends meet. The head office of the disability charity Scope, meanwhile, owed one worker £394.28. Mr Chi Kin Cheng, trading as The Modern Chinese Takeaway, Derby – owed £2,124.58 to one worker. Cheasty Ltd, trading as Papa Johns, Edinburgh, EH8, owed £1,811.33 to 19 workers. They work in day care centers looking after your children, work as aides in nursing homes and hospitals providing care to your mother or grandmother day to day, ring up your groceries and impulse purchases at all kinds of stores and lifeguard at your neighborhood pools and with the ski patrol on the slopes you frequent.
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Ryce Limited, Fife, owed £935.96 to 1 worker. “All workers who have been successfully contacted have been fully reimbursed between the periods of 2012 to 2014, and the case is now closed”.
