Sports Direct to back pay workers after years of underpaying them

Sports Direct has been ordered to back pay staff after the retailer’s founder, Mike Ashley, admitted in parliament that it had broken minimum wage law.
The company will hand over £1m to thousands of its warehouse workers after it was found to be underpaying them for years. The payments will be backdated to May 2012 and could be up to £1,000 for some workers.
The agreement was struck between the Unite union, the retailer and HM Revenue and Customs and involves around 200 workers