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Next faces £30m equal pay bill for paying shop staff less than warehouse workers
A Next store in London

RETAILER Next faces an estimated £30 million equal pay bill after an employment tribunal ruled it had indirectly sexually discriminated against sales consultants by paying them lower hourly rates than their warehouse workers.

The fashion retailer must now compensate more than 3,500 current and former store staff, who are overwhelmingly female, for up to six years of lost earnings which averaged at more than £6,000 per year each.

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