Tesco said the majority of workers were expected to be paid up to £40 Toby Melville/ReutersTesco is to reimburse 140,000 current and former employees a combined £9.7 million after payroll errors meant staff were not paid the national minimum wage. Britain’s biggest supermarket chain has notified HM Revenue & Customs and Usdaw, the shopworkers’ union, about the problems. Tesco said that the errors were identified after the implementation of a new payroll system and were because voluntary contributions made by some colleagues towards benefits, such as pensions, childcare vouchers and cycle to work schemes, resulted in their pay falling below the national minimum wage. Its payroll review involved checking payments for the last six years, but the problems could go back further. The grocer is still finalising the issue but said the majority of workers were expected to be paid…

Source: The Times March 09, 2017 16:52 UTC