Asda equal pay dispute goes to supreme court in decisive virtual hearing

Retailer wants UK’s highest court to overturn verdict to pay shopworkers same wages as warehouse colleaguesAsda shopworkers’ long-running legal battle to receive pay equal to their colleagues who work in the supermarket’s warehouses is being considered in a virtual hearing that got underway at Britain’s supreme court on Monday.About 35,000 retail workers, who are mostly women, have filed claims asking to be paid the same as the predominantly male staff who work in the cha