{"id":49655,"date":"2022-12-01T11:12:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T11:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/?p=49655"},"modified":"2022-12-01T12:56:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T12:56:35","slug":"asda-big-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/2022\/12\/01\/asda-big-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Asda remains lowest paid Big 4 grocer despite ‘monstrous profits’"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAsda has been branded the “worst paying” Big 4 supermarket<\/a>, despite its owners’ reporting \u00a31.4 billion in petrol profits at its forecourt business EG Group.<\/p>\n

According to trade union<\/a> GMB, Asda owners the Issa Brothers trouser “monstrous profits” while low-paid women workers in their stores are worried they won\u2019t be able to heat their homes this Christmas.<\/p>\n

The EG Group, also owned by the Issa Brothers<\/a>, has recorded an increase in gross fuel profits of 20% driven by rising oil prices globally<\/p>\n

However, basic pay for Asda retail workers still remains at \u00a310.10 per hour, below rivals Aldi, Sainsbury\u2019s and Tesco.<\/p>\n

This comes as a recent GMB survey of Asda workers found that 87% of respondents are worried they won’t be able to heat their home this Christmas.<\/p>\n

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“The Issa brothers are trousering monstrous profits \u2013 even buying private jets \u2013 while the low-paid, predominantly women workers in their stores are worried they won\u2019t be able to heat their homes this Christmas,” GMB national officer Nadine Houghton said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a shocking state of affairs. GMB is being denied the opportunity to talk about wages on behalf of members.”<\/p>\n

Houghton added: “We call on the Issa brothers to urgently intervene to do the right thing by the hard-working colleagues they rely on and make sure they are no longer the worst paying of the big four.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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