Sports Direct to spend £10m on boosting staff salaries

Sports Direct International has said it will spend £10 million (€14m) increasing workers’ salaries as it seeks to end a dispute over its treatment of employees.

Starting from today, the UK retailer will pay staff above the British national minimum wage, it said in a statement yesterday.

The increase will benefit about 15,000 mainly store employees on contracts that don’t guarantee them a minimum amount of work, and 4,000 staff at its warehouse in Shirebrook, central England, the Daily Mirror reported, citing an interview with founder Mike Ashley.