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Waitrose changes claims on worker ownership after ad attracts complaints

Waitrose has avoided a formal investigation by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after it agreed not to repeat adverts saying “everyone who works at Waitrose owns Waitrose”.

The supermarket chain is part of Britain’s largest employee-owned retailer, the John Lewis Partnership, which is under pressure to renegotiate its deal with cleaning contractors and be more honest about how it treats workers who are not members of its employee benefit trust. Over 142,000 people have signed a petition demanding it pay its contracted-out cleaners the living wage.

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