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Tesco forced to pay £10m to staff after payroll error

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Tesco forced to pay £10m to staff after payroll error

Supermarket giant Tesco is to reimburse 140,000 staff after an error in their payroll system saw staff receive unlawful pay packets, which amounted to less than the National Living Wage.

Following an error in their system, which was noticed during an internal review, former and current employees will receive around £40 each.

The error is to cost Tesco around £9.7million – Sky News reports. 

The Chief Executive of Tesco's UK and Ireland division, Matt Davies, comments: "As soon as our own review identified this issue we took immediate action to resolve it and establish which colleagues are affected. 

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