Morrisons to be first to pay £10 an hour

Usdaw has negotiated a £10 per hour basic rate for shopworkers at Morrisons. The offer, if approved by a ballot of members, will increase the supermarket chain’s minimum pay from £9.20 and take it 50p an hour above the voluntary Living Wage Foundation rate.

Usdaw national officer Joanne McGuinness explained: “For some time we have been talking to Morrisons about taking retail staff to £10 an hour, as we call for in our New Deal for Workers campaign. So I am delighted that we have agreed a rise that achieves that goal and takes staff well beyond the real living wage.

“The new consolidated hourly rate is now the leading rate of the major supermarkets, which is paid every hour and removes the uncertainty of a bonus payment.”

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