Excellent news. It’s about time that businesses learned that they can’t get away with paying shitty low wages and expect to have an oversupply of staff anyway.
Sainsbury’s increases pay as supermarkets realise they pay pennies
Great. Can’t wait for them to blame that on charging 4 quid for a block of butter.
Wetherspoons has a tendency of paying above the minimum wage in a similar way. And then compensating by reducing hours.
This is objectively good news, but the Living Wage needs to go hand in hand with enough work time to make that term legitimate.
A case of supermarkets dragging their feet on pay. They’re just doing something with us less than they should have been doing all along.
Also if this is about getting employees it’s weird that Asda has started functioning on skeleton crews. Asda seems to want as few employees as possible likely due to its shitty owners.
It is not without cuts though. He is what staff have been told.
More will follow over the coming months on what we need to do to keep winning but it will mean working more efficiently, flexibly and productively as well as taking our customer service to the next level! I know we can do this.
Which basically means we are going to ask you to do the job of two people
A shortage of workers??? Increases wages???
WHOA I could never have imagined! I was told that supply and demand doesn’t apply to labour???
what is the point of minimum wage? If a employers pays x amount then its up to people if they think its worth taking on a job that pays that amount
Kind of good news. Very few supermarkets, if any, offer full-time 37 hour contracts anymore for floor staff.
They usually have people on 15/16 hour per week flexi contracts, where they can reel you in for overtime during their busier periods of the year. The rest of the year you’re lucky to get 3 shifts a week.
Even then, it’s only 56p above NMW, which I think is around the range that supermarket pay has always been above it
£12 an hour, wow that is BARELY above the legal minimum
Scumbag supermarkets raking in the profits
Brilliant news.
Supermarket staff are far more important than another layer of middle management.
The amount of snobbery I saw from my middle class peers who had their jobs made unviable in the pandemic but who flat out saw it beneath themselves to work at a supermarket for money astounded me.
After I factor in my commute cost I make less than that, and I’m in a skilled profession. We should be paid more…
another win for Brexit! first HGV drivers now super market staff, hopefully care workers next!
Hopefully they take the hit themselves. If they just pass it on in price increases it helps no one but themselves.
Next if we could do the same for public transport and then literally every other position we may be able to get businesses to start paying the salaries they can afford to and should have been paying their staff to begin with!
Let’s see if they give 40 hours a week of not to people who want it? I doubt it but the chance would be a fine one.
“Shortage of workers” is code word for “we need more student visas”. And now that tourists are also allowed to work, count on many “tourists” filling seasonal vacancies.
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Excellent news. It’s about time that businesses learned that they can’t get away with paying shitty low wages and expect to have an oversupply of staff anyway.
Sainsbury’s increases pay as supermarkets realise they pay pennies
Great. Can’t wait for them to blame that on charging 4 quid for a block of butter.
Wetherspoons has a tendency of paying above the minimum wage in a similar way. And then compensating by reducing hours.
This is objectively good news, but the Living Wage needs to go hand in hand with enough work time to make that term legitimate.
A case of supermarkets dragging their feet on pay. They’re just doing something with us less than they should have been doing all along.
Also if this is about getting employees it’s weird that Asda has started functioning on skeleton crews. Asda seems to want as few employees as possible likely due to its shitty owners.
It is not without cuts though. He is what staff have been told.
More will follow over the coming months on what we need to do to keep winning but it will mean working more efficiently, flexibly and productively as well as taking our customer service to the next level! I know we can do this.
Which basically means we are going to ask you to do the job of two people
A shortage of workers??? Increases wages???
WHOA I could never have imagined! I was told that supply and demand doesn’t apply to labour???
what is the point of minimum wage? If a employers pays x amount then its up to people if they think its worth taking on a job that pays that amount
Kind of good news. Very few supermarkets, if any, offer full-time 37 hour contracts anymore for floor staff.
They usually have people on 15/16 hour per week flexi contracts, where they can reel you in for overtime during their busier periods of the year. The rest of the year you’re lucky to get 3 shifts a week.
Even then, it’s only 56p above NMW, which I think is around the range that supermarket pay has always been above it
£12 an hour, wow that is BARELY above the legal minimum
Scumbag supermarkets raking in the profits
Brilliant news.
Supermarket staff are far more important than another layer of middle management.
The amount of snobbery I saw from my middle class peers who had their jobs made unviable in the pandemic but who flat out saw it beneath themselves to work at a supermarket for money astounded me.
After I factor in my commute cost I make less than that, and I’m in a skilled profession. We should be paid more…
another win for Brexit! first HGV drivers now super market staff, hopefully care workers next!
Hopefully they take the hit themselves. If they just pass it on in price increases it helps no one but themselves.
Next if we could do the same for public transport and then literally every other position we may be able to get businesses to start paying the salaries they can afford to and should have been paying their staff to begin with!
Let’s see if they give 40 hours a week of not to people who want it? I doubt it but the chance would be a fine one.
“Shortage of workers” is code word for “we need more student visas”. And now that tourists are also allowed to work, count on many “tourists” filling seasonal vacancies.