English network is prosecuted billionaire by paying less to women

While the United Kingdom forces companies to disclose the pay difference between men and women, the largest private employer in the country facing a huge lawsuit from workers who feel treated unjustly.
A large British supermarket chain is the target of complaints, according to a local law firm, would add four billion pounds ($ $5.6 billion). The Office maintains that the workers of the areas open to the public from the shops wrongly paid less than colleagues male warehouse workers and claims that more than 200,000 workers are entitled to compensation.
"Definitely there should be no discussion that employees of stores, compared with the distribution centers, workers contribute at least the same portion of the vast profits of the network," said lawyer. The retailer claims that did not receive complaints.
The complaints coincide with the implementation of new rules in the United Kingdom that require that every company that employs more than 250 people reveal the wage disparity between men and women until April. The network is particularly exposed due to your size and also by the recent campaign to add thousands of workers at stores in an attempt to soften the image of uncompromising company among British consumers.
Employees of the retail stores receive around £ 8 per hour and the colleagues of the distribution centers can earn over £ 11.50, second counselor. The Office States that was approached by more than 1,000 employees and network of frugally supermarkets.
Higher wages
The supermarket chain reported earlier that the men were on average 14% more than women in the period of one year until April 2016. Retail workers with lower salaries, 62% are women, but only 41% of the highest-paid workers are women. A network spokesman said the company "works hard to ensure that all our colleagues are paid fairly and equally by the tasks they perform."
"If the supermarket employees succeed in the action, all the major retailers, and even companies in General, can be exposed to a wave of lawsuits for wage differences between genres," said another labor lawyer in the region.