One of Britain\u2019s biggest businesses was left red-faced after it announced last week that it would be reimbursing 140,000 present and previous employees, following a mistake involving its payroll.<\/p>\n
The error could mean that Tesco pays a total of \u00a310million to the individuals affected.<\/p>\n
The supermarket giant had made the mistake \u2013 which meant that a sizeable section of its workforce received less than the National Living Wage – while calculating pay for staff who had contributed a portion of their salary to a pension scheme, childcare or the company\u2019s cycle-to-work scheme.<\/p>\n
The blunder came to light during a review which was organised as part of the introduction of a new payroll system at the FTSE 100 firm.<\/p>\n
The BBC has reported that around a third of the current workforce have been affected, in addition to 40,000 people who had since left the business.<\/p>\n
Matt Davies, the chief executive of Tesco UK and Ireland, said: \u201cAs soon as our own review identified this issue we took immediate action to resolve it and establish which colleagues are affected.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve apologised to our colleagues and our priority now is to talk to them about how this affects them individually, and make any necessary payments.\u201d<\/p>\n
Business Minister Margot James said the supermarket\u2019s announcement showed the Government’s approach to enforcing minimum wage legislation was working.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is completely unacceptable for any worker to be underpaid and everybody should check their pay ahead of the national minimum and living wages rising on April 1st<\/sup>,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of Britain\u2019s biggest businesses was left red-faced after it announced last week that it would be reimbursing 140,000 present and previous employees, following a mistake involving its payroll. The error could mean that Tesco pays a total of \u00a310million to the individuals affected. The supermarket giant had made the mistake \u2013 which meant that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}