Primark is to hand its roughly 26,000 retail assistants a pay rise from next week across its 419 stores following a huge investment.
The high street giant is to increase the rates of pay for all its hourly paid store staff across England, Scotland and Wales to £11 an hour, with this rising to £11.51 in London.
The pay rise will represent a 12% increase against the same time last year, it said. The increase will come into force on April 1, when the new national living wage of £10.42 an hour - which applies for all workers aged 23 - comes into effect.
