Underpaid at Sainsbury's?
You could be owed years of back pay.
Was your role hourly-paid, working in a store?
Sainsbury's paid the warehouse more than the stores and Locals. If the jobs were worth the same, you were underpaid.
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Equal work. Different rate.
You were on your feet all shift. Two of you running a Local, or a Saturday on the tills at the big store. The stock came in on a cage from the warehouse. The person who loaded it got more an hour than you. Every shift, for years.
The law says if two jobs are worth the same, the pay should be the same. The jobs do not have to look alike. Men and women can both claim.
Sainsbury’s publishes what it pays in store. You know your rate.
Sainsbury’s does not publish the warehouse rate. The claim says it was higher. A tribunal decides by how much.
Sainsbury’s agreed in 2021 that store and warehouse jobs can be compared. Next, a tribunal decides if they were worth the same. Nothing has been paid yet.
They put it on the pallet. You take it off. Same stock, different rate. If a tribunal agrees the roles are of equal value, that gap can become back pay. Nobody is asking to cut warehouse pay.
Did you do work like this at Sainsbury's?
If one of these was your job, check. These are examples. What you did matters more than the job title.
- General Assistant (Days)
- General Assistant (Nights)
- Trading Assistant (Days)
- Customer Service Assistant
- Counter Assistant
- Baker
- Online Shopper
- Services Assistant
- Stock Controller
- and other in-store roles
Your side is the store: tills, shop floor, counters, the café, online picking and general merchandise. The other side is the warehouse. They got more an hour. If the jobs were worth the same, the pay should have been too.
Worked at a Local, not a big store? The check is the same. It is about hourly store work, whatever the size of the shop.
How many hours are in your claim
The hours you worked on the shop floor are what a claim is calculated over. What any claim is worth is assessed by the tribunal, not here.
Back pay counts the last six years, so the estimate stops rising there.
Your answers suggest you may have a claim worth checking. Back pay, where a claim succeeds, is generally limited to the last 6 years. What any claim is worth depends on your individual circumstances and is assessed by the tribunal; no outcome is guaranteed.
| Hours a week | 32 |
| Weeks a year | 52 |
| Years the law counts | 5 |
| Back pay window | up to 6 years |
Where the claims stand
These cases are years old and the supermarkets are contesting them. This is where each one stood on .
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Sainsbury'sYour employerRunning 11 years
Comparison accepted. Sainsbury's accepts that store and depot roles can be compared. The equal value stage is expected in 2027 or 2028.
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AsdaRunning 12 years
Equal value found. 36 store roles have been found to be of equal value to depot roles, for work done between 2008 and 2014. A few roles were not. Asda's defence is heard from November 2026.
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MorrisonsRunning 8 years
Defence heard. The tribunal in Leeds heard Morrisons' defence in sessions listed from April to September 2026. No decision has been published.
No supermarket has paid compensation on these claims, and no payment date has been set.
Left Sainsbury's? Here is how the time limit works.
While you are still employed there is no leaving date to work from. Back pay, where a claim succeeds, is generally limited to up to six years.
To claim, you must have worked at a store in England, Scotland or Wales within the last six years; whether your claim is brought in the Employment Tribunal or in court depends on when you left. Back pay, where a claim succeeds, is generally limited to up to six years. The check takes about a minute.
You can read about equal pay at acas.org.uk/equal-pay.
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The solicitors run your claim and keep you updated. Equal pay cases are slow: the three above have been running between 8 and 12 years.
You could get back pay
If the claim succeeds, you could recover up to six years of back pay, less the fee. You pay nothing if it does not.
Every Sainsbury's shift counts.
Sainsbury's is already selected for you. Worked somewhere else too? Use the main check. Checking commits you to nothing. Your details reach the solicitors only when you sign their agreement.
Which supermarket did you work for?
Worked for more than one? Pick the one you worked at longest. You can tell the solicitors about the others.
Was your role hourly-paid, working in a store?
Hourly-paid work on the shop floor of a store. Which roles qualify differs by supermarket, and the solicitors confirm yours. Warehouse and depot roles are the comparison, not the claim.
Do you still work there?
If you have left, we need the month you finished. The solicitors work from that date.
When did you leave?
Where do you live now?
Back pay and time limits differ in Scotland, so this changes what applies to you.
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Based on your answers you meet the criteria for this claim and you can carry on.
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