World's largest fashion retail store, H&M, was named and shamed for not paying their workers minimum wage.

H&M, which has stores in Greenwich, Brockley, Hither Green and Lewisham, was highlighted by the government for failing to pay 540 workers minimum wage.

The workers at H&M were underpaid by £2,605 each, resulting in the retail store owing a total of more than £177,000.

H&M have since released a statement saying that the workers were underpaid due to a technical error and that they have since been reimbursed.

A spokesperson for H&M said: "H&M employs more than 9,500 people in the United Kingdom.

"Unfortunately due to errors within some of our stores concerning time-logging, 540 employees were accidentally underpaid the national minimum wage."

The government released a list of 37 companies paying staff under the national minimum wage of £6.50 an hour, and fined companies on the list £1,400 each.

Business Minister, Jo Swinson, said: "Paying less than the minimum wage is illegal, immoral and completely unacceptable.

"If employers break this law they need to know that we will take tough action by naming, shaming and fining them, as well as helping workers recover the hundreds of thousands of pounds in pay owed to them."

Are you being paid less than the national minimum wage? Email jamie.micklethwaite@london.newsquest.co.uk or call 01689 885732