UK’s Costa Coffee to give workers 9% pay rise
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Costa Coffee will give over 15,000 hourly-paid workers an average 9% pay increase from April 1, it said on Thursday.
The coffee and sandwich chain, a unit of Coca-Cola Co, said its starting rate will rise from 10.70 pounds ($13.42) an hour to 12 pounds an hour – ahead of the government mandated minimum wage, which will increase by 9.8% to 11.44 pounds an hour from April.
($1 = 0.7971 pounds)
(Reporting by James Davey; editing by William James)
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