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Amazon Workers In Germany To Strike For Better Pay

Workers at some Amazon warehouses in Germany began strike action on Monday, services sector union Verdi said, as part of a long-running battle with the US...

Walmart's Wage Hike Signals Pressure To Raise Pay In Industry Battle For Labour

Walmart Inc's move to give 565,000 of its US store workers raises of at least $1 puts the spotlight on the industry's tight, competitive labour market...

Swiss Retailer Migros Announces Wage Increase

Swiss retailer Migros has announced it will increase wages by between 0.5% and 0.9%, commencing 1 January. The group said that the agreement was put for...

Lidl Raises Pay For British Workers

The British arm of German supermarket group Lidl will next year increase wages for thousands of workers by 2.9% to 3.4%, continuing to pay them at an hourl...

Acceleration In Wage Growth Likely To Benefit UK Retailers: AJ Bell

Investment and stockbroking firm AJ Bell has sad that while an acceleration in wage growth for UK workers might ‘put the Bank of England on a state o...

Walmart's Wage Hike Would Represent Just Five Hours Of Sales

Walmart jolted the retail industry Thursday by raising its US starting pay to $11 an hour, a roughly 10% gain from the current level. But what does that...

Retail Pay On The Increase In UK, BRC Finds

The average hourly pay in the UK retail sector is up 4.6% in 2017, according to the British Retail Consortium’s analysis of the recent ONS Annual Sur...

UK Retail Sales Fall More Than Forecast As Squeeze Hits

UK retail sales plunged in May for the second time in three months as rising inflation ate into the purchasing power of consumers. The volume of goods s...

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UK Squeeze Tightens As Wages Grow At Slowest Pace In Two Years