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Started by Nomad, 21-03-18, 10:49AM

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Nomad

#800
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/14/tesco-chicken-deal-uk-favourite-river-wye-pollution

QuoteA major deal to supply chicken to Tesco from nearly a decade ago may be linked to the ecological demise of one of the UK's favourite rivers, according to a Guardian investigation.

I don't want decade old chicken  :D
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Jellypot

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62177458

Very concerned for some of the drivers in our store, especially the older ones

Hibobhi

Can't find any news stories yet but, Tesco just won their fire and rehire court case, well they had the injunction removed. Guess it's finally happened we lost all our right now


Nomad

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lucgeo

Oh dear!! Another Senior manager on megabucks deciding this was a good idea! And was not challenged :-X  :-X

You just know a CA from stock control or the filler would have had the common sense to question this..I know I and my old team would have, and been very vocal about it!

And you just know the filler will have been thrown under the bus as having made that "human error"! No CA would have decided to security box off their own back, creating more work for themselves  ???
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Nomad

Tesco agrees to cost-of-living pay rise for distribution centre employees

QuoteThe pay rise has been applied to all employees in distribution centres managed by Pertemps, including those in Lichfield, Livingstone and Daventry. Pertemps noted that it hopes the pay rise will help ease the cost of living strain, while also attracting talent to the distribution centres.

Is Pertemps managing DCs possibly an attempt to 'muddy the waters' in the DC/stores equal pay issue ?
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Johnzo88

Did distribution staff not get a wage rise earlier in the year? Or was that other distributions, apart from the ones mentioned above?

crabbit

#808
Wage rise earlier in year was from last June which was paid in feb/march.

9.5% payrise this year includes 3.5% turnaround bonus which has been signed away forever :o
Dont know about other sites but Pertemps manage the agency here in Livingston.

Nomad I think the new 2022 contract that Tesco have introduced and ongoing attempts to get rid of retained pay is Tesco trying to manipulate our earnings to reduce possible compensation being paid to Stores r.e. equal pay claims..

Perhaps Leigh Day should be informed...  >:D >:D
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

Nomad

I'm sure Leigh Day have people who have their ears to the ground(news, websites  ;) ).
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NightAndDay

#810
By working with percentages and timeframes, you can pull the wool over the publics eyes. Tesco could raise one of their illegal immigrants hourly pay from 1p per hour to 2p per hour and headline it as an "Inflation beating 100% pay increase".

Similarly another article a few days ago showed John Lewis's commitment to paying their "partners" a real living wage by quoting the current real living wage figure of £9.90 an hour, and basing their 2% increase and 3% bonus on that, making no mention that not only hasn't it been updated since November last year, but the foundation themselves has said they're moving forward the new headline figure due to the unprecedented increase in the cost of living to next month, supposedly to £15 an hour outside of London and £18 an hour inside of London

Nomad

End of Tesco's Loop trial shows reusable packaging isn't a catch-all solution

QuoteLast week's news that Tesco has quietly wound up its reusable packaging trial with Loop came as no surprise to many in the packaging industry.
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grim up north

Quote from: Nomad on 09-08-22, 10:13AMTesco agrees to cost-of-living pay rise for distribution centre employees

QuoteThe pay rise has been applied to all employees in distribution centres managed by Pertemps, including those in Lichfield, Livingstone and Daventry. Pertemps noted that it hopes the pay rise will help ease the cost of living strain, while also attracting talent to the distribution centres.

Is Pertemps managing DCs possibly an attempt to 'muddy the waters' in the DC/stores equal pay issue ?

We have the situation now where staff with decades of experience are training agency staff who already on more money than the trainer! And if anyone says 'join the agency then' , are you a manager..?

penguin

Pertemps do not actually manage the DCs as such, they just deal with recruitment and training for non managerial staff, still have Tesco staff and management working in and running the DCs.
Do not let anyone tell you there is not a decent job and life beyond Tesco.

Nomad

QuoteThe pay rise has been applied to all employees in distribution centres managed by Pertemps

I still smell fish.
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grim up north

Pertemps just provide agency staff as far as I'm aware. They only 'manage' their own people. T* still run the place and employ staff. Pertemps have been replaced by another agency in some Dc's recently. The new agency had the same pay rise

Nomad

Customers were evacuated from a Tesco supermarket in Inverness after water poured in through the ceiling.

QuoteVideos on social media showed tiles on the ceiling falling to the floor and water pouring in, covering most of the floor in the supermarket on Sunday afternoon.

Another Tesco with a roof 'problem'.
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lucgeo

Maybe do a poll 8-)

The store I worked at suffered continuously for years, when it rained heavily. Flower buckets and yellow hazard signs were commonplace on aisles, even after the supposed re roofing   :-X
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Redshoes

#818
Quote from: Nomad on 16-08-22, 10:02PMCustomers were evacuated from a Tesco supermarket in Inverness after water poured in through the ceiling.

QuoteVideos on social media showed tiles on the ceiling falling to the floor and water pouring in, covering most of the floor in the supermarket on Sunday afternoon.

Another Tesco with a roof 'problem'.

The local cinema had the roof cave in. Asda had the same issues. All had rain through the roof issues.

Nomad

Redshoes, you miss the point we have seen on here over the years many reports of leaking roofs (some collapsing) in Tesco stores.  You don't have to try and lessen the companies numerous faults by claiming others suffer from the same.

Surely the 'claimed' No 1 should be better than the others.
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lordadmiral

Supermarkets tend to deliberately delay any repairs. It's a gamble.

mab47

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/tesco-shoppers-angry-after-home-24803991

Anyone know why all online orders were cancelled after 1pm on Friday? (guessing both delivery and click and collect) Doesn't happen often, though I did manage to get a Whoosh delivery Friday afternoon so some stuff is working at least  :)

gomezz

It says "system error".  Would you understand any better if they told you the details?
"The progress of the kart is more important than its direction"

Grassman

Was supposed to get a delivery between 7pm and 8pm, received an email at 8.15pm informing me it was cancelled. Sitting here hungry with 2 kids. Poor communication and another low from this shambles of a company.

gomezz

Sorry for your kids going hungry but I do not understand how anyone lets their cupboards get that Mother Hubbard.
"The progress of the kart is more important than its direction"

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