All Pay and jobs articles – Page 9
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Comment & OpinionSocial impact from fixing food waste is far bigger than we realise
There are so many examples of industry-led social impact in this week’s Goodness special issue, says Kris Gibbon-Walsh, CEO of FareShare and guest editor of The Grocer
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NewsWaitrose staff to get almost 7% pay rise in April
The John Lewis Partnership said the investment comes on top of the nearly £300m it has pumped into improving salaries over the past three years
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NewsIceland’s new employee reward puts customers ‘at heart’ of staff recognition
Iceland said this is the first time customer feedback will be linked directly to its wider internal rewards programme
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Comment & OpinionWhy retailers must address the high cost of low morale
Evidence shows engagement thrives when staff feel valued, supported and able to contribute
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Comment & OpinionCo-op crisis about governance as much as strategy or execution
Hopes the situation would calm down, as issues with the plan were ironed out, do not seem to have materialised
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Comment & OpinionApprenticeships are essential to retail and social mobility
We believe defunding leadership apprenticeships would be a clear step backwards, says James Goodman, chief people officer at Asda
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NewsJD.com confirms March launch for UK Joybuy e-commerce site
At full launch it will bring “more than 100,000 products from leading household brands to UK shoppers” JD.com said.
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NewsOcado head office jobs at risk as it plans to shrink workforce by 5%
The move follows a bruising few months for the warehouse automation technology group
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NewsLidl raises pay and doubles full-paid paternity leave
‘We believe longer paid paternity leave is vital on our journey towards gender equality in the workplace,’ said Lidl GB’s chief people officer
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NewsAsda underpaid 53,000 workers sickness and holiday pay after Project Future error
Thousands of hourly Asda staff were incorrectly paid between February 2024 and May 2025, as a result of issues following its Project Future IT upgrade
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NewsTesco to cut nearly 400 jobs amid bakery restructure
Tesco is cutting almost 400 jobs as it phases out its centralised bakery operation and transitions to a new in‑store model
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NewsAmazon’s swingeing job cuts to affect UK roles
In an announcement today, Amazon said it was making “additional organisational changes” – to the tune of 16,000 job cuts
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InterviewsUK MD Michael Fletcher on how Spar is creating a ‘functional family’
Spar UK has suffered falls in sales and profits, and the Appleby Westward sale is stalling. But MD Michael Fletcher is confident in its key selling point
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NewsLidl opening 19 stores in eight weeks
Lidl is also investing £43m in refurbushing 70 existing stores
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NewsAldi raising pay for store workers from March
Aldi is already the highest-paying UK supermarket based on its national entry-level store worker rate
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Partner FeaturesRedefining recruitment: can humans and tech really work in harmony?
Recruitment and retention has long been a challenge in the food and drink manufacturing sector, so how can businesses future-proof their workforces and ensure that humans can really work in harmony with ever-evolving technology?
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NewsGousto strategy chief departs after close to a decade
Sally Matthews said she had consumed nearly 17,000 different Gousto recipes during her tenure at the company.
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NewsNew employment laws give ‘too free a hand to unions’ says warehousing trade body
The UK Warehousing Association has warned of ‘unreasonable administrative burden on businesses’
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NewsEx-Waitrose MD named as Pets at Home CEO
The former Waitrose MD is set to become CEO at Pets at Home Group, joining the petcare specialist on 30 March
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NewsWaitrose offers paid role to 'sacked' autistic volunteer Tom Boyd
In October Waitrose found itself at the centre of a PR crisis after it emerged Tom Boyd was let go after his mother asked for him to be paid for shifts