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Last month, Asda invested £141m in giving a 10% pay increase to all its hourly-paid store colleagues, taking it from the bottom of the supermarket pay league to sitting comfortably at the top.
The pay rise – which will take the hourly rate to over £11ph by July – was the third Asda had given its staff within the past 12 months and came in the wake of strikes threats over the Christmas period. It takes the supermarket straight to the top of the table, where it will be the second-highest paying grocer as of July.
Over the past year, Asda had been branded the “worst paying” supermarket by GMB Union, criticised for failing to raise pay for workers in line with other ‘Big 4’ retailers and faced long-standing disputes with its staff over low pay rates…
So what is really happening and where did Asda go wrong?
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