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Tesco: Retail staff receive 4% rise

Key details

  • Pay award: 4% basic pay increase

  • Employees covered (nos.): retail staff (247,500)

  • Effective date: 1 July 2007

The country's largest private sector employer, supermarket chain Tesco, has increased basic pay rates for its 247,500 store employees and section managers by 4%, effective from 1 July 2007.

The pay increase, agreed with retail union Usdaw, takes the basic rate for a provincial employee with a year's service on grade C (which includes checkout operators) from £6.02 to £6.26 an hour.