British supermarket group Sainsbury's said it would invest £200m to raise the pay of 120,000 workers to a level above the new rate of the UK government's mandated national minimum wage.
Sainsbury's, one of Britain's biggest private sector employers, said that from March it would pay staff outside of London £12 an hour and staff in London £13.15 an hour, up from £11 and £11.95 currently.
The UK minimum wage, called the National Living Wage, will increase by 9.8% to £11.44 an hour from April 2024, making it one of the highest as a share of average earnings of any advanced economy.
