Sports Direct to offer staff guranteed hours after working-conditions review

Sports Direct has said that it will offer casual retail staff guaranteed hours instead of zero-hours contracts and ensure all warehouse staff are paid above the UK's National Minimum Wage following a review into working practices at the retailer.

Conditions at Sports Direct's Shirebrook warehouse have come into sharp focus after company boss Mike Ashley was grilled by MPs in the wake of a newspaper investigation which revealed that hundreds of staff were being paid below the national minimum wage.