Amazon UK to invest 170 mln stg to increase staff pay

LONDON, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Amazon UK will invest 170 million pounds ($207 million) to increase the pay of its frontline operations staff, it said on Monday.

It said from Oct. 15 minimum starting pay would increase by at least one pound an hour to between 11.80 pounds and 12.50 pounds, depending on location.

It will increase further to between 12.30 pounds and 13 pounds an hour from April next year.

($1 = 0.8214 pounds)