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Category: Investigations

Equal Work, Unequal Pay? The Questions Behind Britain’s Warehouse Wage Gap

A business can publish its gender pay figures and still leave workers wondering whether everybody is getting a fair deal. Britain has spent years talking about equality at work. We’ve got legislation, reporting requirements, policies, training courses and enough corporate statements about fairness to wallpaper a distribution centre. And yet one question remains wonderfully simple.…

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The Taxpayer, the Warehouse and the Cheap Labour Question

When the government helps employers take on unemployed people, is it buying a future for the worker — or merely reducing the company’s wage bill? There’s something rather wonderful about the idea of helping someone who’s been unemployed for a long time back into work. A wage, a routine, a bit of confidence, a reason…

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The Müller Empire: From Yoghurt Pots to Warehouses

Behind the familiar dairy labels sits a much larger business empire. The question isn’t whether that empire is legal. It’s whether the public can see clearly enough who controls what. Most people in Britain know Müller from the supermarket fridge. Yoghurt, milk, desserts. The sort of stuff you throw into a trolley without giving the…

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