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Pret a Manger has made a U-turn on its plans to end staff bonuses, which had been temporarily halted during the pandemic before the decision was made not to reimplement them – after workers threatened strike action, the Guardian has reported. However, the food and beverage chain has not backtracked on its decision to stop paying for break times, meaning that workers may stage industrial action. Pret employees had threatened to down tools this week after bosses announced the temporary pay cut would be made permanent. Read more John Lewis & Pret among firms ‘named and shamed’ for underpaying workers by £2m A service bonus, linked to performance judged by a mystery shopper, was ditched last summer and reintroduced in April this year at 50p an hour, down from £1 before the pandemic hit. Workers were told last week that change would also be made permanent, The Guardian said. But, in an apparent effort to ward off any walk outs, Pret Boss Pano Christou addressed employees in an email, announced that the mystery shopper bonuses ‘set Pret apart from the competition’ but that difficult decisions had to be made on staff rewards, amid a slow recovery from the Coronavirus pandemic.
