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Labour to urge HMRC to investigate Sports Direct pay levels

Labour to urge HMRC to investigate Sports Direct pay levels

Move comes after Guardian inquiry suggests firm may be paying below minimum wage

  • Have working conditions improved at Sports Direct warehouse?

Labour’s frontbench is to ask HMRC to investigate pay levels at Sports Direct, after expert analysis of a Guardian undercover investigation suggested the company could be paying below the minimum wage.

The move by Andy McDonald, the shadow secretary of state for employment rights, comes after the Guardian returned to the company’s warehouse in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, five years after a first undercover investigation exposed how workers at the site were being paid less than the national minimum wage.

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