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Letter: Hourly rip-off

Published 6 April 2002

From Anne-Marie Gregory

Feedback comments on the curious hourly rate for cleaners at Birmingham’s Aston University (9 March).

My employer, a well-known British supermarket chain, recently stuck a message on our wage slips informing us that our pay had increased over the four-week period. Imagine our joy when we read it had gone up from £4.82 to £4.8204 per hour.

Issue no. 2337 published 6 April 2002

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