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Waitrose: 3.5% overall increase


Key details

  • Pay award: 3%, with additional merit pot of 0.5%
  • Employees covered (nos.): store employees and managers (27,700); head office, including warehouse and distribution (2,000)

    • Effective date: 28 March 2004

    Nearly 30,000 staff employed by Waitrose, the supermarket arm of John Lewis, received overall increases worth 3.5% effective from 28 March 2004. Base rates were increased by 3%, with the remaining 0.5% of the settlement budget made available for merit rises.