Lidl to give frontline staff a £200 ‘thank you’ bonus for their hard work during the pandemic

Lidl is set to give it’s 23,000 UK frontline employees a £200 bonus in recognition for hard work in the pandemic. 

The gesture will be received by customer assistants, warehouse operatives and cleaners across more than 800 stores and 13 distribution centres in the UK.

There will also be a £100 reward to around 1,800 office-based staff.

The bonus will be put into staff’s February pay and will amass to £5.5 million in total. 

Christian Hartnagel, chief executive of Lidl’s UK business, said: “It has been an extremely challenging period and our teams have done a phenomenal job in helping to keep the nation fed.

“I am incredibly proud of the dedication and commitment our colleagues have shown and continue to show and this payment is about recognising their unrelenting hard work and thanking each individual for the important part they’ve played in the year like no other.”

It comes after Lidl handed out £150 bonuses to all colleagues in March last year, and a pay rise in November.

Pay rises which see the entry-level wages increase from £9.30 to £9.50 an hour (outside M25) and £10.75 to £10.85 (inside M25) and will come into effect in March 2021.