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Asda retail staff: 3.6% annual increase

Key details

Pay award: two-stage award worth 3.6% overall

Employees covered (nos.): retail colleagues (125,940)

Effective date: 1 April 2006

Supermarket chain Asda has awarded its 125,940 retail colleagues a basic pay increase of 2.5%, effective from 1 April 2006. The basic rate for an adult checkout operator or sales assistant in a London store has now risen to £6.34 an hour, while daytime sales assistants based in provincial stores now receive £5.58 an hour.