Five reasons to sign up to Harcus Parker's supermarket equal pay claim

If you work, or used to work, in a supermarket store, you may be able to join an equal pay claim and recover money you may be owed.

The supermarket equal pay claims are about whether store workers were paid less than warehouse or distribution centre workers for work of equal value. Equal pay law says different jobs can still deserve equal pay if they involve similar levels of skill, effort, responsibility and working conditions.

Harcus Parker / EqualPayUK, acts for current and former supermarket store workers bringing claims against some of the UK's biggest supermarkets.

Checking if you're eligible to claim only takes a couple of minutes and could mean you get tens of thousands of pounds in back pay. This is money that you are owed.

Here are five reasons to check whether you can join.

1. You will be supported by leading equal pay lawyers

Harcus Parker is a specialist group litigation law firm with experience running large legal claims against powerful organisations.

Our lawyers understand supermarket equal pay claims and the legal arguments involved. We have acted for clients in equal pay claims against the supermarkets since 2018. These cases are complex, long-running and involve large numbers of workers, so it is important to have a team that knows how to manage group claims properly.

When you join, you are not trying to take on a major supermarket alone. You are joining a wider legal action with specialist lawyers working to recover the pay store workers may be owed.

2. We have experience acting in supermarket equal pay claims

Harcus Parker is already acting for current and former supermarket store workers in equal pay claims.

We understand the issues store workers face, the value of shopfloor work, and the importance of challenging unfair pay where mostly female store workers may have been paid less than mostly male warehouse or distribution centre workers.

That experience matters. These claims are not simple individual disputes. They are large group actions designed to help thousands of workers stand together and protect their legal rights.

3. There is no upfront cost to join

You do not pay anything upfront to join the claim. If your claim succeeds, our fee comes from a percentage of the compensation recovered for you. That means you do not need money set aside for legal fees before you can take action.

This helps ordinary workers challenge unfair pay without taking on the risk alone.

4. You keep more of your compensation

If your claim succeeds, Harcus Parker charges 24% of your compensation, plus VAT.

That is lower than many other law firms involved in supermarket equal pay claims, which means you may keep more of the money recovered for you.

This is important because any compensation is not a bonus or a windfall. It is money you may have earned but were not paid in the first place.

5. You could recover money you are owed — and help hold supermarkets to account

A pay gap of £1, £2 or £3 an hour can add up quickly.

At 25 hours a week, a £1 to £3 hourly difference could add up to roughly £7,800 to £23,400 over six years, before deductions, interest or other adjustments.

For many workers, that could mean money towards bills, rent, debt, childcare, savings or family life.

But these claims are also about accountability. If large organisations underpaid store workers, they should not be able to keep the benefit of that unfairness.

By joining the claim, you are helping challenge unfair pay, protect your own position, and make it harder for other workers to be short-changed in the future.

Check whether you can join

You may be able to join if you worked in-store for Tesco, Morrisons, Asda or Sainsbury's, were paid by the hour, and worked there in the last six years.

You do not need to be in a union. You do not need to be certain you have a claim before checking. Men are also be eligible.