Well, it certainly is a good day for Lidl staff - which includes all their cleaners and other staff, along with those on the shop floor, unusually.
They currently pay a minimum of £7.30 an hour outside London and £8.20 in London (higher than Osborne's soon-to-be-introduced so-called National Living Wage - which is only for the over-25s) but, from October, will exceed the Living Wage Foundation's Living Wage by paying at least £8.20 an hour in England, Scotland and Wales and at least £9.35 in London.Lidl has said it will pay 9,000 of its UK workers at least the full living wage from next month as the first major high street name to embrace the higher pay campaign.
(my bold)The foundation recommends paying £7.85 outside London and £9.15 in London and will announce new rates at the start of November. Lidl said it would match the foundation’s new levels if they were higher than those adopted by the company.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/201 ... iving-wage
Edit to fix quotes. Bumboils™