Tesco Faces Equal-Pay Case That Seeks Up to $5.6 Billion
- Law firm says Tesco underpays mostly female shop-floor staff
- U.K. companies must soon make public their gender-pay gaps
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As the U.K. forces companies to disclose the gap between men’s and women’s pay, the country’s biggest private employer is confronted with a massive demand from workers feeling short-changed.
Supermarket chain Tesco Plc has been presented with claims that law firm Leigh Day says could eventually total as much as 4 billion pounds ($5.6 billion). The firm contends that female shop-floor workers are unfairly paid less than their male counterparts in warehouses and says more than 200,000 workers could be entitled to compensation.