Tesco Faces Record £4Bn Equal Pay Claim

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42968342

Just when Tesco thought it couldn't get any worse !

[fiction-factory]

Difficult one. I never fully understand these cases. I know men who work in store and I see quite a lot in store. Also, I am sure women can apply for warehouse jobs. I'm not sure why some of these women didn't or whether they did but were discriminated against in their application. I suspect the warehouse environment is a male dominated one so maybe women feel less comfortable there- just as jobs such a snursing and primary teaching attract more women than men. I suspect also it's an issue of women are more likley to want part time work and that fits in well with stores

[Spicerack]

This really annoys me. They are different jobs, in the same way that bin collectors and tea-ladies have very different jobs. And the price of my beans will go up.
Also, how come Leigh Day solicitors are still allowed to operate?

[Spicerack]

Off topic. Has the snow settled in Swansea, mikey?

[Cloverjo]

I don't work for Tesco or in a warehouse, but I'm sure the bosses don't think 'She is a woman, we'll pay her less than the men.'
In the company I work for, some of the men are paid more than some of the women, because they are more valuable as workers in their own right, regardless of gender. (Some of the women are paid more than some of the men, too.)

[naomi24]

//Lawyers say hourly-paid female store staff earn less than men even though the value of the work is comparable.//

"The value of the work"? This is spin. Tesco stores couldn't operate at all without cleaning staff so one might say that the value of that work is comparable, in fact more important to the company, than any other job including management, but no one would suggest cleaners and managers be paid equally.... or would they?

[dannyk13]

So this woman thinks that all employees, no matter what job they do, should receive equal pay.I hope she loses her case.

[dannyk13]

Solicitors view:-
//"In terms of equal worth to the company there really should be no argument that workers in stores, compared to those working in the depots, contribute at least equal value to the vast profits made by Tesco//
I wonder if they pay they pay their secretaries the same as they poy their solicitors, after all they all contribute to the firm's profit,

[Haggisdj]

@ dannyk13 I'm sure there would be uproar if they started paying their solicitors the same as their secretaries...

[goodgoalie]

I'm all for equal pay for equal work. But working on a checkout and working in a warehouse are not 'equal work', and Tesco - and any other employer - should be able to set the rate of pay any particular job.
I'm sure male checkout workers in Tesco stores are not paid more than their female counterparts.

[dannyk13]

Haggis, my daughter works as a PA at a solicitors and she would love to be paid as much as the solicitors.

[youngmafbog]

Many many years ago when I left school I worked in a Tesco warehouse. In those days everything was man handled and when the artic's came in it was all hands to the pump. It was quite noticeable, with two exceptions, the ladies never did the job. Can't say I blame them, drop a case of beans on your foot when some thicko lobbed them at you without looking and you knew it.

Times may have changed a bit, but I'm betting not that much.

[webbo3]

complete rubbish, you can't compare the two jobs, sitting at at checkout and wearing light shoes and working sociable hours is completely different to working nights, wearing steel toecaps, working in minus 2 degrees or just above freezing and driving a forklift