Employment Judge Davies, sitting in the Leeds Employment Tribunal, had cleared the way for Morrisons retail staff to argue for the same wages as distribution centre workers in a combined claim valued at up to £100 million, adding to the growing body of case law against the unequal pay policies of major retailers. Specialist law[…]
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The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the supermarket should apply employment conditions uniformly across its UK business Tesco workers won a landmark decision on 3 June in an equal pay case heard by the Court of Justice of the European Union, further strengthening the case against other retailers accused of[…]
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The success of civil compensation claims brought by 550 sub-post masters unlocked access to justice in the high-profile case and proved that there is strength in numbers. The Court of Appeal’s decision last week to quash the criminal convictions of 39 sub-postmasters was the culmination of years of legal wrangling and decades of injustice. The[…]
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The Supreme Court ruling in favour of store workers will be closely watched by other UK retailers. On 26 March 2021, British supermarket giant Asda lost a Supreme Court case brought by around 44,000 of its female workers in the first stage of a long-running claim for equal pay. The court ruled that the female[…]
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Approximately 56,000 Boots in-store employees across England, Wales and Scotland could be eligible to join an Equal Pay Claim against the cosmetics giant. If the case is successful, Boots could owe their in-store employees a total of around £180 million in back pay. The claim is being brought on the basis that in-store staff, who[…]
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Thousands of employees are now in the process of bringing legal proceedings against Morrisons supermarket in an equal pay claim that could eventually cost the company up to £100m. Morrisons is the latest of the ‘Big Four’ supermarket retailers to face an equal pay claim, the most of recent of which was Asda which made[…]
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