>Tesco equal pay claim could cost supermarket up to £4bn
> Lawyers say female shopfloor workers earn up to £3 an hour less than male warehouse staff
> A law firm has launched legal action on behalf of nearly 100 shop assistants who say they earn as much as £3 an hour less than male warehouse workers in similar roles. Up to 200,000 shopfloor staff could be affected by the claim, which could cost Tesco up to £20,000 per worker in back pay over at least six years.
> Tesco warehouse staff earn from about £8.50 an hour up to more than £11 an hour while store staff earn about £8 an hour in basic pay, according to the claim. The disparity could mean a full-time distribution worker earning over £5,000 a year more than store-based staff.
> The case follows similar actions against Asda and Sainsbury’s which are working their way through the employment tribunal process. Nearly 20,000 people are involved in the Asda case, where the latest ruling backed the shopworkers’ right to compare their jobs to employees – mainly men – working in distribution centres. Asda is due to appeal against that ruling at the court of appeal in October. About 1,000 workers are involved in the Sainsbury’s action.
> Unequal pay has also become a big battleground in the public sector, with female cleaners and dinner ladies taking legal action over claims that they were paid less than binmen or male street cleaners. Birmingham city council agreed to pay more than £1bn to settle the claims of tens of thousands of women which stretch back over many years.
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Male and female warehouse workers are paid the same. Male and female shop assistants are paid the same. But here’s the media pretending because the former has more men and latter has more women that there’s gender bias here.
The claim that they’re paid differently for the same work hasn’t worked out for them so now they’re pretending that their female dominated jobs are of equal value to male dominated jobs.
They'll either cut staff, raise prices of products and services, or both. Tesco is a business, not a charity. They have no problem with making the hard decisions if the math says it can work.
This is the thing about feminist causes: rather than winning women more, they actually just make everyone else worse off.
GIB MORE MONEY TO MY VAGINA RIGHT NOW
>everyone is equal
>everyone is brought down equally
>everyone is equally worse off in the end
I swear feminism is just socialism by a different name. We're beginning to see the backlash here. The men from the top ranks to the ditch diggers are averse to interacting with women or anyone that looks soyboy, and if they have to, it's cordial and brief.
The old Paranoia RPG rulebook already had the Feminist faction classified as a Communist faction, and that one was in the 80s.
I work in HR, which is mostly women. I'm going to start arguing we should be paid the same as investment bankers.
>do harder job
>get paid more
Only in (((great))) shitland
Tesco pays
Shuts down a dozen or so stores
100s out of a job
Nice
>CORPORATE COMMUNISM
THANKS AGAIN FEMMUNISTS
I'M SURE THIS WON'T END HORRIBLY.
Couldn't this be solved by showing the payroll for women/men for warehouse and shop assistans positions? Tesco has enough money to hire dozens of the best jewish lawyers, especially if they could face a bill of almost 6billion euro
>Tesco warehouse staff earn from about £8.50 an hour up to more than £11 an hour while store staff earn about £8 an hour in basic pay, according to the claim. The disparity could mean a full-time distribution worker earning over £5,000 a year more than store-based staff.
Are women actually this stupid, do they not see why this is stupid?
>"No men love lifting heavy shit in a cold warehouse all day, they wouldn't prefer to be inside the warm shop stacking shelfs or picking food for delivery, they chose it for fun not that worse conditions have higher wages"
That would require that the feminists operate on sound logic. It'd be a tough fight.
Literally the sort of shit that happens:
>Women bitch and moan they aren't getting paid as much as men
>Regardless of if they're working as hard
>Regardless of if they've argued for a better salary as an individual
>Regardless (now) of even their ACTUAL JOB ROLE
>All the happens is (((companies))) turn around and go:
>>"hahaha okay sweety, we'll level the playing field, if you insist!"
>Men all get wages lowered
There must be something more to this. How could a court possibly let this through? Sure in the media this will be equated with the 6 gorillion pay difference between men and women but not in court. The precedent here could bankrupt most large companies. You would have to pay your senior engineers the same as tech support? What?
Long-term thinking isn't as common as you'd think bong, tragic as that sounds.
so why hire women anymore? it just means constant trouble
lel women don't even do deliveries in supermarkets. Almost all of them are on checkouts, in admin, or on counters.
Asda has lost one appeal and is currently appealing again on a case that deals with the exact same issue.
So what's next? Are they going to complain that computer engineers earn more than babysitters?
Fuck these cunts and their entitlement.
If you want to get paid better get a better fucking job.
Ok then. Put the feminists in the warehouse and let the men be cashiers in the store. See how long that lasts.
How is working on a sales floor the same as working in a warehouse? The warehouse people are lifting pallets and other things.. wtf?
Yeah swap their roles for a month and see if they still think it's equal.
>At Asda, hourly paid colleagues doing the same job in the same location are paid the same. Men and women doing the same job in our retail stores are paid the same. Men and women doing the same job in our distribution centres are paid the same. Pay rates in stores differ from pay rates in distribution centres for legitimate reasons, including the different market rates for different jobs in different sectors.
Woman claim store staff does the same work as the male-dominated warehouse staff. No logic, only feelings allowed
>I swear feminism is just socialism
BINGO!!!
Feminism is Marxism for ugly girls. That's all it is.
They won another case where school dinner ladies argued they should be paid the same as trash collectors. It's ridiculous.
At least all of this bullshit will eventually set legal precedent for when men eventually play the system and start working less in order to earn more.
So how long until shelf packers get the same wages as store managers? (but only for women)
Here's one where men pulled the same trick:
>Univesity Of Wales Workmen Win Equal Pay Claim After Being Paid Less Than Female Counterparts
>Around 18 workmen - including carpenters, plumbers and caretakers - took employer the University of Wales, Trinity St David (UWTSD) to an employment tribunal claiming they were being paid less than female counterparts on the same pay scale, such as secretaries and office workers.
>But in an unexpected U-turn, the UWTSD's legal team told a hearing in Cardiff they would no longer be contesting the equal pay claim.
Though it actually sounds like they should have been on more pay than secretaries and office workers.
I've tried getting this across friendo but most people are just too retarded to understand.
I fear we're going to end up with women sitting behind tills taking 9 months paid leave for Rayone's next child to be born while men do all the dangerous factory and warehouse jobs and get paid the same.
>sitting at a checkout all day, gossiping with other women
>lifting heavy boxes & driving forklift trucks
Not the same job, does not deserve the same pay, the harder job deserve higher pay, if these bitches wanted a warehouse job they should've done that instead, stupid cunts.
>taking 9 months paid leave for Rayone's next child to be born
I know someone who started a maid service. He hired several women, and after a few months, it turned out most of them were pregnant, and would soon be taking a year's paid maternity leave. He couldn't afford to pay that and hire replacements, so he had to turn away several customers and become a cleaner himself without a wage. When it finally came time for the original mothers to come back, most of them decided they weren't going to after all, at which point he had to shut down the business.
This is why you see a lot of middle aged women in smaller businesses, they outright won't hire any young girls because of this and hire middle aged women who already have kids to avoid this and getting hammered for not hiring women
As far as I'm aware there isn't even a minimum amount of time spent at a company to be entitled to maternity leave is there?
This is the feminist dream.