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Union says workers are being ‘fleeced’ by supermarket’s changes to pension contribution rules• Business live – latest updatesAlmost 1,000 workers at two Morrisons warehouses will take part in a strike for the next three days over a reduction in company contributions to their pensions which they say is worth up to £10m a year.The warehouse stock controllers, cooks, canteen staff, and administrators at the sites in Gadbrook, Cheshire, and Wakefield, West Yorkshire, who earn between £12 and £13 an hour, say they will lose out by an average of £500 a year each from the company’s plan to cut how much it puts into their pension pot while forcing workers to pay more. Continue reading…
Union says workers are being ‘fleeced’ by supermarket’s changes to pension contribution rules
• Business live – latest updates
Almost 1,000 workers at two Morrisons warehouses will take part in a strike for the next three days over a reduction in company contributions to their pensions which they say is worth up to £10m a year.
The warehouse stock controllers, cooks, canteen staff, and administrators at the sites in Gadbrook, Cheshire, and Wakefield, West Yorkshire, who earn between £12 and £13 an hour, say they will lose out by an average of £500 a year each from the company’s plan to cut how much it puts into their pension pot while forcing workers to pay more.
