Both retailers have announced their first ever autumn pay review

Perk announced as retailer recruits 10,000 temporary roles at Waitrose and John Lewis

Amid the global pandemic, various fashion houses such as Barbour, Mulberry and Scottish fabric specialist Don & Low have been turning their hand to making hospital gowns and scrubs for frontline NHS workers. And now John Lewis is to reopen its Lancashire-based textiles factory to produce desperately needed PPE.