Aldi is giving THOUSANDS of staff a pay rise making them the best-paid supermarket workers in the UK
Store assistant staff will earn £8.85 nationally and £10.20 in London from February 1
ALDI is to give thousands of staff a pay rise making it the highest-paying supermarket in the UK.
Store assistants at the budget grocer will earn a minimum hourly rate of £8.85 nationally and £10.20 in London starting from February 1.
The German discounter has also promised to match the Living Wage Foundation's recommended rate of £8.75 nationally and £10.20 in London for all its employees.
Aldi has opened 76 new stores during the last 12 months, bringing the total number to 762 as part of its aim to have 1,000 open in the UK by 2022.
Matthew Barnes, CEO of Aldi UK and Ireland,: “Our store colleagues are the cornerstone of our business. Without their hard work and dedication day in, day out, we would be unable to provide customers with the lowest grocery prices in the UK.”
The supermarket today revealed that it sold 4million mince pies in the run-up to Christmas, helping it generate over £10billion in sales last year in the UK and Ireland for the first time.
Mr Barnes added: “This was our busiest-ever Christmas as millions of festive shoppers switched to Aldi from more expensive food retailers."
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The pay increase follows a similar rise last year when the firm upped hourly rates for over 3,000 staff.
In November, rival Lidl announced a pay rise for more than 16,000 employees.
Staff at the supermarket will earn £8.75 per hour nationally and £10.20 in London starting on March 1.
While Tesco pledged to give its staff a 10.5 per cent pay rise over the next two years.
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