Sainsbury‘s staff in Derry are to get their first proper pay rise in years.
The company has announced all non-management store staff in Derry will get their highest pay increase in more than a decade this month.
It is lifting its basic pay above the recently announced national living wage.
It will also continue to pay staff for breaks – Tesco staff in Derry don’t get paid during their breaks.
Sainsbury‘s will increase its basic hourly rate by four per cent to £7.36 an hour from this Sunday.
British finance minister George Osborne last month announced a compulsory living wage for workers aged over 25, starting at £7.20 pounds an hour from next April, rising to £9.35 pounds by 2020.
However Sainsbury‘s, which axed 800 jobs earlier this year as part of a 500 million pound cost-cutting exercise to free cash for reinvestment in the business, said its new pay rate would also apply to around 40,000 staff under the age of 25.
Tesco pays an hourly rate of £7.39 but, unlike Sainsbury‘s, it does not pay staff for breaks.
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