Women shop workers have won the latest round in their fight for equal pay with male colleagues employed behind the scenes.
A tribunal agreed that the work of 2,000 female Next sales staff was of equal value to that of males in the firm’s warehouses who earn between £2 and £14 an hour more.
If the women win the third and final stage of their five-year battle it could cost the store up to £100million to raise the pay of all 15,000 staff.
