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Unequal work, equal pay – because you feel you deserve it

7 February 2019

1:47 PM

7 February 2019

1:47 PM

Asda, British supermarket giant, has recently lost the right to appeal a bizarre ruling regarding its allegedly discriminatory remuneration practices. A dispute between workers and management of the chain has been festering since October 2016, when the UK Employment Tribunal decided that supermarket shop workers had the right to consider their work comparable with employees doing warehouse duties, and subsequently could expect equivalent (in this case, higher) pay.

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