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8th January 2023
07:49pm GMT

According to industry analyst Kantar, it has been a bumper festive period of supermarkets including Tesco, thanks to people opting to save money by hosting parties and entertaining at home instead of going out. Data from Kantar suggests sales rose by 6% in the 12 weeks to 25 December.
In its annual report this year, Tesco noted that it had agreed with unions representing shop floor staff in 2019 that a regular annual cash bonus, previously paid in March, would be ditched in return for a higher rate of basic pay.
In October, the chain increased its basic rate of pay for shop floor staff to £10.30, taking their total pay rise last year to 8%.
A Tesco spokesperson said: "We have never given a regular cash bonus at Christmas and it is wrong to suggest that we have replaced one with chocolates.
"To help colleagues with their Christmas shopping this year, we doubled our colleague discount to 20% in the run-up to Christmas – one of many benefits available to our colleagues, on top of the near 8% increase in base pay we invested over last year."
Last year, the chief executive of Tesco, Ken Murphy, was paid £4.75m including a £3.21m bonus, while the chief finance officer, Imran Nawaz, earned a £1.24m bonus.
Murphy could reportedly earn up to £10.7m this year if he meets performance targets.
In March 2022, Tesco announced it had doubled its pre-tax profits to more than £2bn.
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