Woolworths underpaid staff at ALH Hotels by about $270 million

(Reuters) – Australia’s Woolworths Group Ltd said on Tuesday employees at its pub and hotels group ALH Hotels had been underpaid and the cost to remediate them would eat into its full-year operating profit.

Woolworths, one of several companies which have recently admitted to underpaying workers, said it expects to repay about A$390 million ($270 million) for underpaying salaried ALH staff in 2018 and 2019.

(Reporting by Shashwat Awasthi in Bengaluru; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)