Woolworths workers across Oxfordshire could be compensated with 60 days’ pay after union bosses won an employment tribunal.
Up to 700 Oxfordshire Woolworths staff who worked in nine stores across the county could get the payout.
About 24,000 staff were made redundant when 805 shops across the UK closed at the end of 2008.
The compensation, amounting to £67m, came after union Usdaw claimed administrators had failed in their legal duty to consult the union.
However, Usdaw said the compensation award would not apply to 3,000 employees who worked in smaller stores where fewer than 20 people lost their jobs.
Sallie Hunt, 68, who worked in Woolworths in Sheep Street, Bicester, said she was delighted. The Bicester mum-of-two, now retired, added: “If I got a few hundred pounds maybe I could go on holiday — I haven’t heard anything yet about how much I might get.”
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