> Asda has said it will invest £150 million into giving more than 120,000 staff an 8.4% pay rise.
> The UK’s third largest supermarket chain has said it will increase basic pay for retail workers to £12.04 later this year.
> It is the latest supermarket group to hike pay rates ahead of an increase in the national minimum wage in April.
> Mohsin Issa, Asda co-owner, said: “This record investment will see Asda become the highest-paying grocery retailer in the UK, recognising the hard work of our store colleagues in serving customers every day.
> “We want to be a company that people are proud to work for, which is why we are proposing increasing pay for retail and Express colleagues by more than 8% this year.”
It really shouldn’t be considered news when companies raise pay to keep up with minimum wage rises.
Also, another terrible excuse for journalism. Absolutely no analysis – basically just reproducing a press release.
They’ll Increase pay but they’ll cut the available hours to pay for it.
I know a store manager and he said they had to cut 100 hours in January and 50 hours in February and that’s a small store.
If the average shift is 8 hours that’s 19 shifts lost. That’s on top of previous cuts upon cuts. No wonder there’s fuck all on the shelves.
Minimum wage + 69p => minimum wage + 60p.
So while the pay is going up, it (a) had to go up to meet minimum wage requirements, and (b) is getting closer to minimum wage.
Very much, meh news, framed as good news.
Nothing more infuriating than people coming straight into the comments to whinge about it whilst most of us have barely seen our salaries rise for the last 5 years. £12 to stack shelves doesn’t seem too bad to me.
Because they have too, because they were paying shit money. I hate how they present like Asda are doing a good thing and not just what they have too.
Sainsbury’s letting staff go, Asda giving staff pay rises!
Both doing well.. I know where I’ll pick to shop
Its not really… Since the new ownership, they silently got rid of the bonus that colleagues got in February, after promising during initial takeover, a bigger bonus… So this increase is just essentially the bonus they would’ve gotten put into their wage instead…
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> Asda has said it will invest £150 million into giving more than 120,000 staff an 8.4% pay rise.
> The UK’s third largest supermarket chain has said it will increase basic pay for retail workers to £12.04 later this year.
> It is the latest supermarket group to hike pay rates ahead of an increase in the national minimum wage in April.
> Mohsin Issa, Asda co-owner, said: “This record investment will see Asda become the highest-paying grocery retailer in the UK, recognising the hard work of our store colleagues in serving customers every day.
> “We want to be a company that people are proud to work for, which is why we are proposing increasing pay for retail and Express colleagues by more than 8% this year.”
It really shouldn’t be considered news when companies raise pay to keep up with minimum wage rises.
Also, another terrible excuse for journalism. Absolutely no analysis – basically just reproducing a press release.
<5 minutes of investigative work:
According to Google the current Asda basic pay is £11.11, or [2023 minimum wage](https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates) + 69p
Their new rate of £12.04 will be 2024 minimum wage + 60p.
The [Living Wage Foundation](https://www.livingwage.org.uk/) puts the UK living wage at £12
They’ll Increase pay but they’ll cut the available hours to pay for it.
I know a store manager and he said they had to cut 100 hours in January and 50 hours in February and that’s a small store.
If the average shift is 8 hours that’s 19 shifts lost. That’s on top of previous cuts upon cuts. No wonder there’s fuck all on the shelves.
Minimum wage + 69p => minimum wage + 60p.
So while the pay is going up, it (a) had to go up to meet minimum wage requirements, and (b) is getting closer to minimum wage.
Very much, meh news, framed as good news.
Nothing more infuriating than people coming straight into the comments to whinge about it whilst most of us have barely seen our salaries rise for the last 5 years. £12 to stack shelves doesn’t seem too bad to me.
Because they have too, because they were paying shit money. I hate how they present like Asda are doing a good thing and not just what they have too.
Sainsbury’s letting staff go, Asda giving staff pay rises!
Both doing well.. I know where I’ll pick to shop
Its not really… Since the new ownership, they silently got rid of the bonus that colleagues got in February, after promising during initial takeover, a bigger bonus… So this increase is just essentially the bonus they would’ve gotten put into their wage instead…
£13.21 hr all while Junior Doctors are on £14 hr?
Who in their right mind would vote Tory???
£13 for retail workers is still way too low!
This is in no way “news”.
This should be commonplace.