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UK: Asda's 18p pay rise announcement described as 'smokescreen' as row over new contract continues
"Asda announces pay rise as contract row continues", 29 October 2019
Asda is raising the hourly rate paid to its supermarket staff by 18p next year amid a row with staff over new contracts that has left thousands of staff facing the sack this weekend.
Union officials...described the pay offer as a smokescreen...
...Asda said the hourly rate, which applies to 118,000 staff, would go up again in April to £9.18. The majority of Asda staff are on contracts currently paying £8.21 an hour (the national minimum wage), which means their basic rate of pay will rise 11% in a year...