The TUC web and e-newsletter site for activists Unionreps reported on the first ever criminal prosecution over the Minimum wage. Leading aside the fairly obvious question over why it has taken so long for there to be a criminal prosecution (the National Minimum Wage Act was passed in 1998, and has been in force for 8 years – why on earth is this the first prosecution, surely no-one is trying to suggest this is the first ever breach?)