Lidl To Pay Living Wage

The supermarket chain employs 9,000 people across the UK

Lidl's promising to become the first supermarket in Britain to pay the recommended living wage.

It'll give workers £8.20 an hour from October, and £9.35 in London. It's an average increase of £100 a month, or £1,200 a year. The supermarket chain employs 9,000 people across the UK.

The discount chain says the £9 million pound cost of the increase won't put up prices in store.

Chris Wilde from the Fife Living Wage campaign says he is delighted at the news:

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