Irish supermarket doesn’t want to pay a living wage to locals so instead are recruiting 100 people from abroad. Yet another case of “nobody wants to work” but this multimillion euro company prefers to outsource labor over paying a living wage to their own people.

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  3. I really have no idea why anyone shops in supervalu.

    Horribly overpriced, tasteless and old fruit/veg/baked goods, and they do that cruel american thing of not allowing their cashiers to sit

  4. We’re at pretty much full employment and have the lowest youth employment in the EU, is anyone saying “nobody wants to work” here? Sounds like people importing American shite to me…

  5. Where are they going to live, and how much will SV charge them for it? Also, didn’t RTE have a feel good story about how wonderful it was Ukrainian refugees filling these minimum wage service jobs? Not even people fleeing from a warzone want to work in the Irish service industry…that says a fucking lot.

  6. 1700 / 1800 net per month is higher than the minimum wage.
    Approx 11.50/hr. So why focus on this particular example instead of the many jobs only paying the minimum wage…

  8. I’m guessing this is also about being able to hang onto workers longer. When the employer controls subsidized accomodation….its hard for them to leave.

  10. I work in SV and am basically a manager, and they pay like absolute shit. Im expected a raise soon and if it’s no good I’m seriously out.

    I’m on 12 an hour at the moment and literally have no money for everything, and that’s me doing manager work.

  11. Pretty misleading the way they sell the 3 month probation period as ‘you can quite without working the notice period’ as opposed to ‘you can be fired without cause,’ which is what probation is actually about.

  13. Nobody wants to work for below a living wage. And they shouldn’t have to.

    Also anyone making the argument “I went to college for 4 years to study for my job and I don’t make €15 per hour” well that isn’t the fault of unskilled worker who wants fair pay. You’re also being exploited. If you want that to change, join or start a union.

    Also, the higher the minimum wage/living wage gets, you then have leverage to negotiate to negotiate better pay even without a union. People just need to know their own worth and put this outdated bullshit notion that you should be grateful for your lot in life in the past where it belongs.

    We are so drunk on begrudgery in this country it is unreal. It’s the politicians and the executives who decide to increase prices to increase profits who are fucking you over.

  14. My experience in Dublin so far is that at least 1 store or restaurant per block has for hire post.

    Coming from another country it looks like there are some type of jobs(hospitality for example) that not enough people want to do.

  15. This isn’t America. If we let them away with this they’ll continue to erode what our parents, grandparents fought for, a fair wage for a days work. This is bullshit and I will not shop in Supervalu or in any Musgrave owned store from now on.

  16. I have a good example, a Spar in Cork, the owner always hired foreigners with 0 to little English…to take advantage of them, insult them, shout at them, badly paid…the poor guys didn’t leave because they had nothing better or didn’t understand. He usually fired them during probation, then got new victims. The two Irish he hired left within hours, max days. These kind of companies know they can take advantage of foreigners, The Irish usually know how to defend themselves.

  17. They’ll find you accommodation….. that’ll cost you up to 550 a month. I’d take it just to outsource someone finding me somewhere to live

  18. Super Valu should be shammed for this. It is disgraceful. Outsourcing is happening too much, too many call centres now operating in India as employees are not been given a living wage

  20. €1,700/month, 40 hours per week.

    That’s €1,700×12=€20,400/yr

    Which is €391.31/week

    Or €9.81/hour

    Minimum wage in Ireland is (supposed to be) €10.50/hour

    The €1,830/month is €10.56/hour.

    Terrible.

  22. Is corporate greed making sure the wages stay low by seeking outside labour rather than pay a full living wage to make it worth the time of local workers?

    No it must be the immigrants!

  24. I got pissed off with SuperValu at the start of the pandemic when then opened more deliveries per slot and completely overwhelmed the drivers, instead of opening more actual slots.

    The poor drivers were starting their day on the back foot and playing catch up the whole day.

    Not the point of the article, but it’s just another thing that annoys me about them.

  25. Just a perspective, 1700 euro per month is a money that an IT worker can get in Hungary. The minimum wage in Hungary is 321 euro. If someone who knows English, and have been stuck in a very shitty situation( works in retail on minimum wage) in any Eastern EU country – this could seem like a godsent opportunity. I remember when I first started to work in my job in IT and my first month salary was 4k (because of taxation and stuff) and I literally cried because I have never saw that amount of money on my bank account. With my current savings and such, I could buy a house and a car in Hungary, and I would be considered a billionaire. For some people this little help, can change their life. When I first moved here, I used to work for 310 euro month, lived at my step moms basement and wasn’t even able to afford shit, most of my money went on food and bills. I will be forever indebt to Ireland and Irish people to let me work here and live here, and I will be always greatful. I can see that people here can feel that their country is letting them down but I just wanted to show the other side as well.

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