STAFF at Derry’s Lidl supermarket will not receive a new pay rise this year of around £1 per hour.
From October, the German owned company will implement the minimum wage as recommended by the Living Wage foundation.
It will mean a minimum of £8.20 an hour across England, Scotland and Wales.
In London, it will be £9.35 an hour.
But staff at its Buncrana Road store will not be getting the same rates.
The company said that in the North it had increased wages in August “in line with the proposed living wage for Northern Ireland”.
But its as not revealed the minimum rate it pays in the North.
The minimum wage in the North for those over 21 is currently set at £6.5 per hour and £5.13 for those aged 18 to 20.
The Living Wage is different from the National Living Wage as set out in the last budget.
It is an hourly rate that is assessed as giving workers a basic standard of living.
In the North, the living wage is £7.65 an hour.
Lidl today announced that it would become the first UK supermarket to implement the minimum wage.
The firm said store assistants working in Lidl NI earn “up to £8.60 per hour”.
It added that it would “continue to monitor all discussions and proposals in relation to the living wage in Northern Ireland and will review and update accordingly”.
As well as its Derry store, Lidl has another 37 supermarkets across the North.
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