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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Julia Kollewe

Next overturns equal pay ruling that raised basic wages for shop staff

A mannequin in a window of a Next store behind the company logo
Next said it had to pay a higher market rate to warehouse staff because of recruitment and retention pressures. Photograph: Mike Kemp/In Pictures/Getty Images

The UK retailer Next has overturned a 2024 court ruling forcing it to pay its shop staff the same higher basic pay rates as its warehouse workers under equal pay rules.

The chain, led by the Conservative peer Simon Wolfson, said it had “won a landmark victory in its ongoing equal pay litigation”. It has succeeded in its appeal to the employment appeal tribunal “on the key issue of basic pay”, it said.

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