Marks and Spencer will give more than 40,000 store workers across the UK a pay rise from April after a huge investment in staff wages.
Customer assistant staff will see their hourly pay increase to £10.90 from £10.20 from April 1, M&S revealed. This will take it ahead of the national living wage which has been set at £10.42 an hour for those over the age of 23 from April this year.
Employees in London stores will see their hourly wages upped to £12.05 from £11.25. The move will cost the upmarket retailer £57 million and mark its biggest ever investment into its front-line workers' rewards.
