The UK retail sector is one of the country’s largest employers but its business model is built on poverty pay and insecure contracts. This doesn’t just harm low-paid workers’ quality of life, it harms the economy too by driving inequality, hindering productivity and adding pressure on state resources through increased health and welfare costs, posing a threat to the long-term interests of shareholders. Investors want answers from companies on how widespread this issue is. They're calling for more transparency on just how many staff are not being paid a real Living Wage and for businesses to explain why they can’t pay staff a wage that reflects the true cost of living.

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