SUPERMARKET EMPLOYEES EQUAL PAY CLAIM
Your Equal Pay Rights
This claim is open to all UK employees. An Employment Tribunal has just ruled that most of the jobs within the supermarket are of equal value to those of the mostly male workers in the supermarket giant’s distribution centres.
The case revolves around the fact that the mainly female retail workforce is paid up to £3.74 per hour less than the predominantly male warehouse workforce.
If you are currently work on the shop floor of TESCO, Morrisons, Sainsburys, ASDA or the Co-Op as a checkout operator, shop floor assistant or section leader of a supermarket then you have a claim for equal pay. It is the duty of the company to ensure that workers doing a comparable job with it's organisation are paid at the same rate.
- A distribution centre floor worker takes goods from shelves places them in boxes, loads the boxes onto a pallet and moves the pallet onto a van.
- A shop floor worker moves a pallet from a van, unloads boxes from the pallet and takes goods from the boxes and places them on shelves.
As you can see these roles are the same role but in reverse. This is just one of a number of scenarios.
However the distribution centre worker is paid many thousands of pounds more than the shop floor worker. This is inequality in comparable roles.
- checkout operator
- shop floor assistant
- section leader
You are entitled claim back the difference in wages between your rate and their rate going back as far as 2014. With 5 years being the statute of limitation in the UK for employment related claims.