Thousands of current and former Tesco workers have won a legal argument in their fight for equal pay.
The European Court of Justice (CJEU) has ruled that an EU law could be relied on in making equal pay claims against their employer.
Tesco workers, mostly women, have argued that they failed to receive equal pay for work of equal value with colleagues in its distribution centres who are mostly men. They said this breached EU and UK laws.
Tesco and law firm Leigh Day, acting on behalf of the workers, sought clarification from the Court of Justice of the European Union.
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NAM Implications:
- An inevitability…
- …and a distraction that Tesco can do without.
- Time to re-focus on the retail day job…
- …in a post-2020 world.
