21st Jul 2016 05:43
LONDON (Alliance News) - The investigation being conducted by HM Revenue & Customs into Sports Direct International PLC's failure to pay warehouse staff the minimum wage is understood to have been widened to include its retail workers, The Guardian reported.
The Guardian said investigators from the UK tax authority are examining whether the sports clothing and equipment retailer's 13,000 shop workers, in addition to the 3,000 it employees at its Shirebrook warehouse in Derbyshire, have been paid less than the legal minimum.
This comes after Mike Ashley, the founder of the company, admitted to a parliamentary inquiry in June that the company had broken the law by failing to pay warehouse staff the minimum wage.
An expansion of the investigation could significantly increase the scope of potential fines and back-pay due by Sports Direct.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jul/20/sports-direct-minimum-wage-probe-set-to-be-extended-to-shop-staff
By Sam Unsted; [email protected]; @SamUAtAlliance
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