After a six-year legal struggle, the Employment Tribunal ruled that the company had failed to justify paying its predominantly female sales consultants lower hourly wages than their male-dominated warehouse counterparts.
Elizabeth George, a partner at Leigh Day who represented the claimants, hailed the decision as a significant achievement in the fight against pay discrimination, noting that Next's financial reasoning for the pay gap was deemed unacceptable by the tribunal.
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