Supermarket giant Tesco have announced they will be rewarding employees who work on shop floors, in warehouses or customer contact centres with a 10% increase as a thank you for their incredible effort during the coronavirus pandemic.
Tesco says that in the past two weeks staff have worked twenty-four hours a day to ensure customers got the products they need.
The bonus which will be backdated to March 9th and runs until May 1st will be an extra 10% of employees usual hourly rate.
Jason Tarry, UK and ROI CEO at Tesco said: “It’s been an extraordinary couple of weeks and despite the enormous challenges, it’s been incredible to see how colleagues have stepped up and responded, doing an outstanding job during this uncertain and difficult time.
“This pay bonus is just one way we are saying thank you to our colleagues and recognising that they are on the front line, helping to feed the nation.”
They’ll very likely have it taken out of their universal credit, just like when Greggs employees got a bonus.