Chairman: Warehouse Workers and Executive

chairman: Ashley, who founded the company and still owns 55%, is the executive deputy chairman and will attend but in the past he has stayed quiet, leaving the difficult job of answering questions to chairman Keith Hellawell and chief executive Dave Forsey, according to The Guardian. Thousands of Sports Direct warehouse workers are to receive back pay totalling about £1m after the retailer admitted breaking the law by not paying the national minimum wage. Investors in the controversial firm, which has faced months of pressure over working conditions for staff, get their chance to quiz directors at Sports Direct annual meeting in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, on Wednesday. And the company and its employment agencies are facing fines of up to £2m imposed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy after they were found to have been underpaying workers for four years. RPC, the law firm, will this week publish its report on Ashley review of working conditions, but leading shareholders believe this is not independent because RPC is a regular adviser to Sports Direct. So, after a tumultuous year for the retailer, these are the questions that investors should ask at the AGM. What improvements have been made to working conditions in the main warehouse in Shirebrook MPs on the business, innovation and skills committee claimed that Ashley was running Sports Direct like a Victorian workhouse . Ashley himself told the parliamentary committee in June that an internal review of Sports Direct working practices uncovered unpleasant surprises . Shareholders need to clarify what improvements have been made since then, other than Sports Direct increasing pay for staff and agreeing to pay warehouse workers back pay after a Guardian investigation exposed that it was effectively not paying the national minimum wage. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.