M&S worker’s petition on pay

A Marks & Spencer employee’s 70,000-strong petition calling on the high street giant to scrap proposed pay cuts to offset the cost of the national living wage will be delivered this week.

The woman, who set up a Change.org petition under the name Kate Simpson after a near 43-year career with the retailer, said proposals to cut extra pay for working unsociable hours targeted longserving employees and would see 11,000 staff lose up to £6,000 a year.

The petition will be delivered to M&S’s flagship Marble Arch store on London’s Oxford tomorrow.

A spokesman for M&S said that around 90% of staff would be better off under the proposals.

M&S is being petitioned over pay proposals.