Sainsbury's staff pay to exceed new living wage

Sainsbury’s is to give 137,000 members of its workforce their biggest pay rise in a decade.

The rate of pay for those on the shop floor will rise by four per cent from £7.08 to £7.36 an hour, which will be above George Osborne’s national living wage on £7.20 an hour. The supermarket’s measures will come into effect next week, while the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s will have to wait until April 2016 to be implemented.