Unions representing staff at Sports Direct's main warehouse in Shirebrook have filed a pay claim asking the retailer to move thousands of zero hours workers on to permanent contracts.
Unite which represents just a handful of permanent staff at the site in Derbyshire despite having had a union recognition agreement in place for many years, said Sports Direct should pay staff the living wage of £7.85 an hour.......
The union’s action comes after Sports Direct announced a 20% rise in pre-tax profits to £300m in the year to 26 April, triggering share bonuses worth £155m to permanent staff.
While the company continues to successfully expand, it is facing anger over its treatment of its workers including legal action from 300 workers who were excluded from the company's generous bonus scheme because they were on zero hours contracts.

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