Aldi is giving retailer colleagues throughout Lanarkshire a pay enhance for the second time this yr, sustaining its place because the UK’s best-paying grocery store.
From September, all hourly paid colleagues at its shops will obtain a rise of 40 pence an hour on their present hourly charge, taking Aldi’s minimal pay charges for retailer assistants to a sector-leading £10.50 an hour nationally and £11.95 for these contained in the M25.
Aldi - with shops in Hamilton, Motherwell, Bellshill, Airdrie, Wishaw and East Kilbride amongst others - additionally stays the one grocery store to supply paid breaks, which for the typical retailer colleague is now price greater than £830 a yr.
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The brand new charges far exceed the Dwelling Wage Basis’s beneficial actual residing wage of £9.90 an hour nationally.
Giles Hurley, chief govt officer of Aldi UK and Eire, stated: “Our new charges of pay keep Aldi’s place because the UK’s highest paying grocery store.
“This announcement recognises the wonderful contribution our colleagues make in serving the native communities in Hamilton. Their excellent efforts have ensured that our clients proceed to have entry to contemporary inexpensive meals, each single day.”
Aldi is the UK’s fifth-largest grocery store and has greater than 970 shops throughout Britain.
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