Hundreds of staff with a leading supermarket in Gedling borough are to get a pay rise this Christmas.
German discount chain Aldi is set to become the first supermarket to pay all store and warehouse colleagues a minimum of £12 an hour nationally from February 2024.
Aldi has stores in Daybrook and at Teal Park near Netherfield
The grocer claims the new pay rate makes it the first supermarket to offer wages in line with Real Living Wage, which was set by the Living Wage Foundation in October this year.
Store Assistants’ pay will rise further to £12.95 nationally based on the length of service as part of Aldi’s £67m investment into colleague pay.
Aldi is currently the only supermarket to offer its workers paid breaks, which the supermarket claims gives the average store colleague an additional £900 a year.
Aldi UK and Ireland chief executive officer Giles Hurley said: “Just as we promise to provide the best value to our customers, we are also committed to being the highest-paying supermarket in the sector.”
“We are incredibly proud of every single member of Team Aldi and this is a way of thanking them for all their hard work over the past year. We believe our colleagues are the best in the sector and they play a huge part in making Aldi what it is today.”
The announcement follows in the wake of the value supermarket being named the UK’s cheapest supermarket for 2023 by consumer group Which?.
