John Lewis 'inadvertently' breaks pay rules, puts £36m aside for staff

John Lewis has had to put aside a whopping £36million after short-changing thousands of staff over the last six years – Metro reports.

Thousands of workers, at both John Lewis and Waitrose, will benefit from the pay-out after the company announced it had “inadvertently” broken minimum wage rules.

John Lewis were quick to stress that they had never paid staff below the legal minimum wage and the mistake had occurred due to retailer’s practise of averaging pay out to a consistent number each month.

A John Lewis statement read: “This arrangement was implemented to support partners with a steady and reliable monthly income, but we now believe this arrangement may not meet the strict timing requirements for calculating compliance with the national minimum wage regulations.”