Morrisons could face 150 sex discrimination claims following a decision to award its predominantly male distribution workers more redundancy pay than its female finance-centre employees.
Around 2,500 drivers and distribution workers from three depots and 200 staff at a Morrisons' finance centre will lose their jobs as part of the company’s Safeway takeover.
However, there is an in discrepancy in the two groups’ redundancy pay.
The drivers and distributions workers will get around 50 per cent of their salaries in the pay off, and the finance workers will get just a fifth of their salaries, an article in the Times stated.
The finance centre workers are currently voting on strike action, while the workers’ union, which covers both groups, is embarking on filing claims at Newcastle employment tribunal.
Speaking to the Times, a Morrisons' spokesman said the allegations of discrimination were “irresponsible and unfounded”.
It said that as the company had inherited the distribution centre from Safeway and had originally acquired the finance centre from an outside operator, it is simply honouring the contracts that it inherited.
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