ABOUT US
Equal Pay Now is powered by Leigh Day, leading employment and discrimination lawyers.
We don’t act for companies ; we act for individuals, promoting equality at work and challenging discrimination and unequal pay.
Our specialist team of equal pay lawyers represent those who have experienced – or are still experiencing – the unfairness of unequal pay at work. The law entitles every worker in the UK to equal pay.
We’ve already helped thousands of employees at private companies and local authorities, such as over 4,500 employees at Birmingham City Council. We acted on behalf of female staff doing an equivalent job to male staff but getting paid less. We took their case to the High Court and won: now, employees everywhere have six years – instead of six months – to make claims against employers.
We are currently helping store workers at Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons, Co-op and Next who believe they are being paid less than warehouse workers. We believe both jobs have equal value in terms of their demands, skills and responsibilities. The Big Five supermarkets and retailer Next have wrongly deemed the roles of warehouse workers more taxing than those working in storefronts. We are now challenging this claim.
We have already had success in these claims in the civil court and in the Employment Tribunals with a ruling that the roles are comparable. The claimants at Next will find out later this year if they have won the third and final stage of their equal pay claim and the supermarket cases are closely following behind. Success means those staff included in the claim will be entitled to significant back pay and equal terms going forward.
If you have worked in any Tesco, Morrisons, ASDA, Sainsbury’s, Co-op or Next store in England, Scotland or Wales within the last 6 months, you could be eligible to join the claim. Click here to choose your claim.