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[Affected workers could be entitled to
as much as six years of back pay,
amounting to at least £10,000 each.]


[The European Court of Justice has ruled
that Tesco does not pay female staff
the same amount for equivalent work
done by male employees,
in a landmark judgment that sides
with employees of the UK supermarket giant.
Thousands of shop floor staff, most of whom
are women, have accused Britain's biggest
grocer of paying them up to £3 per hour less
than the mostly male warehouse workers,
when their work is of equal value.
The Tesco Action Group, which first launched
legal action in 2018, estimates as many
as 25,000 female employees may be owed
compensation after being underpaid
for at least seven years.

[Leigh Day, the law firm representing
the Tesco employees,
has previously said that affected workers
could be entitled to as much as
six years of back pay, amounting to at least £10,000 each.

It is thought that the case may be one
of the last major decisions by the
EU in relation to UK employment law before
changes brought about by Brexit take hold.]


https://news.sky.com/story/top-europ...-case-12323737