Aldi to pay £11/ hour in supermarket first

ALDI has said it will become the first UK supermarket business to commit to paying all store staff at least £11 an hour. The discount retailer, which employs over 40,000 UK staff, said that all store assistants will receive the new rate from January 1. It added that workers within the M25 will receive £12.45 an hour from next year. It is the latest pay increase by the German retail group, taking its starting rate 15% higher than it was a year earlier.