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		</div><p>More than £1m in back pay is to be handed to thousands of Sports Direct workers after the retailer admitted to not paying the minimum wage.</p>
<p>The move will see some workers at Sports Direct Shirebrook warehouse in Derbyshire receive as much as £1,000 in payments back-dated to May 2012.</p>
<p>The payments will be made to both agency workers and staff directly employed by Sports Direct, Unite the union said.</p>
<p>The trade union said 96% of its members directly employed by Sports Direct had backed the pay deal, which covers unpaid searches at the end of shifts.</p>
<p>Workers employed by Sports Direct and employment agency The Best Connection will start receiving back pay in full near the end of August, Unite said.</p>
<p>But it added that up to 1,700 Transline agency workers may only initially be handed half the back pay they are owed.</p>
<p>The union said Transline is refusing to honour its commitments from when it took over at Shirebrook from recruitment firm Blue Arrow two years ago.</p>
<p>Steve Turner, Unite&#8217;s assistant general security, said it was a &#8220;significant victory&#8221; in the union&#8217;s campaign to secure dignity at work for the staff at Sports Direct.</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;But investors and customers alike should not be fooled into thinking that everything is now rosy at Sports Direct&#8217;s Shirebrook warehouse.</p>
<p>&#8220;Transline, one of the employment agencies involved, is disgracefully still trying to short-change workers by seeking to duck its responsibilities.</p>
<p>&#8220;Deep-seated problems still remain regarding the use of agency workers with the behaviour of both Transline and The Best Connection further jeopardising Sports Direct&#8217;s battered reputation.</p>
<p>&#8220;Sports Direct needs to make Transline face up to its responsibilities and seriously confront endemic abuses within its employment agencies.&#8221;</p>
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