As reported by the industry title “Retail Gazette”, Tesco returned to court, trying to overthrow the legal decision in the dispute on an equal wage of 4 billion pounds. The case has been going on since 2018, and the basis is allegations of lowering women's salaries.
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In a collective lawsuit, which was joined by nearly 49 thousand. former and current employees – among whom the majority are women – indicated that store employees (mainly female staff) receive lower salary than people employed at the distribution center (here the majority are men).
According to the information contained in the lawsuit, Giant magazine employees were to earn $ 8.5 to 11 per hour. In turn, people employed in stores had a basic pay at 8 pounds. Per year, wages in wages could be up to 8,000. pounds.
Estimates on the side of the victims who cite “Retail Gazette” say that up to 200,000 unevenness in remuneration could have. people employed in stores. If the court finally agreed to the employees and forced Tesco to pay the compensation, the total cost could reach £ 4 billion.
Billions of zlotys in the game
As “Retail Gazette” reminds, a matter that was first initiated in 2018 by the law firms Harcus Parker and Leigh Day, has already passed through several stages of the work tribunal.
Tesco is now referring to the Court of Appeal after the Court of Appeal for Employment (EAT) ruled at the beginning of this year that the retailer should have been able to provide expert economic evidence arguing that market forces explain the difference in remuneration.
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Tesco is not the first retailer entangled in a dispute regarding equal wages. In August last year, Next, dealing with clothes, lost a six -year legal battle with equal wages.
Lawyers representing about 3,500 former and current store employees considered the verdict “extremely important”, and the amount of overdue remuneration due to the reasons may be over 30 million pounds.
