tesco wont pay overtime

[silversurfer]

Tescos just bought out the royal bank of scotland of a banking venture for a billion pounds. They arent poor but they cant really afford to moves like that and then let the reins loose.
Speak to the union about it, I doubt you really want a personal argument if they are transferring you, etc

Wages used to screw my overtime every week but the gals on the desk were great about it. In the end they ended up giving me an extra 30 hours, I didnt complain

 

[Scania]

Tescos just bought out the royal bank of scotland of a banking venture for a billion pounds. They arent poor but they cant really afford to moves like that and then let the reins loose.

Paying the workforce an overtime rate for overtime worked is hardly "letting the reins loose" , especially for a company that can more than afford to do so!
You'd hope, in an ideal world I grant you, that they'd rather reward the workers who's effort has put them in a position to buy out Banks first, and then worry about whats left to spend.......

Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, has reported a 13% rise in full-year underlying profits to £2.55bn.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6562347.stm (Source)

"Every Little Helps" - Its enough to make you want to puke!

 

[neoboy]

Well it doesn't really state that "every little helps" applies to customers now does it?

 

[jmhduck]

As far as I know if you work overtime they have to pay overtime ie if you took them to court you would win (I'm not an expert on law this is just what I think to be the case). However you'd probably lose your job or management would hate you etc.

 

[yermum]

What people generally tend to forget is that the only people Tesco are interested in is their shareholders. As a company, they have to return ever increasing profits to them and the only way that they can do this is to screw costs, staff, customers, suppliers and competitors.

 

[Andrew_McP]

I shop at Asda!

You think things are better there?

Overtime can be a messy area. It's probably up to your manager to make she he/she has any overtime authorised by senior management before agreeing it with workers. Just because your manager says you can come in, doesn't mean it'll be paid. It ought to, but it doesn't, because the whole idea is to put pressure on the managers to deliver more for less.

This kind of thing is only going to get worse. Sales across the big supermarkets are up, but that's because of food inflation double the official rate, not real increases in sales & profits. Our store just received a payroll cut because although sales are up, volume's down. Oh joy!

Hang onto your hats folk, this recession has only just begun! :-/

Andrew McP

PS Being in a union is, in theory, a good idea. I'm not, but that's because I got sick of handing over a tenner a month only to watch them roll over and play dead. But to be fair, employment rights these days are so strong (in general) that Unions are far less important. In fact if you ask me -- and I speak as shop floor pleb, not a manager -- the pendulum's swung too far in the employee's favour. Sacking lazy baskets has become a nightmare, making it harder for employees with a conscience get any kind of job satisfaction. Assuming such a thing exists in a big retail chain.

PPS In the first job I ever had, at a filling station over 30 years ago, one of the mechanics said to me not long after I got there... "Repeat after me... I must work harder, for less money! That's the only thing you'll ever hear throughout your working life." And he was absolutely right.

 

[jmhduck]

PPS In the first job I ever had, at a filling station over 30 years ago, one of the mechanics said to me not long after I got there... "Repeat after me... I must work harder, for less money! That's the only thing you'll ever hear throughout your working life." And he was absolutely right.

I like that quote although I'm after working harder for more money or even better more money for less work .

 

[titchard]

As far as I know if you work overtime they have to pay overtime ie if you took them to court you would win (I'm not an expert on law this is just what I think to be the case). However you'd probably lose your job or management would hate you etc.

How would you lose your job?

If anything it wouldn't as it shows you would take them to court - they can't fire you for taking them to court over not paying you correctly, otherwise they would have unfair dismissal on there hands.

Rich

 

[scorza]

How would you lose your job?

If anything it wouldn't as it shows you would take them to court - they can't fire you for taking them to court over not paying you correctly, otherwise they would have unfair dismissal on there hands.

Rich

They would find a way somehow - I really don't think taking your employer to court is a good idea except as a last resort. Basically, the OP has two choices, quit in protest (Tesco's won't give a damn) or accept that from time to time, your employer will shaft you and continue working for them.

 

[jmhduck]

How would you lose your job?

If anything it wouldn't as it shows you would take them to court - they can't fire you for taking them to court over not paying you correctly, otherwise they would have unfair dismissal on there hands.

Rich

What I mean is if you take your employer to work they're going to hate you and first chance they'll fire you or they'll probably just be unpleasent etc.

 

[Scania]

You think things are better there?

No, not at all - I deliver to both, but, at least Asda is not Tesco!

 

[Andrew_McP]

No, not at all - I deliver to both, but, at least Asda is not Tesco!

Well, to me at least Tesco are British! Working for Wal*Mart makes my skin crawl. I'm just too lazy to walk 2 miles to work instead of 100 yards. My work/life balance would suffer, and that's the only reason I stick with it. Well, that and job security... everyone has to buy food no matter how bad things get over the next few years.

One good thing to be said about Tesco is that they still (I learned in another thread) pay more on a Sunday, showing some appreciation of the fact that the weekend is still valuable to families. Asda tried to make it sound like they were doing everyone a favour when they introduced a completely flat working week. Shameful IMO, but if people will insist on going shopping every day of the week it's inevitable that everyone will follow that example eventually.

Andrew McP... lapsing into whinge mode.

 

[Psymonkee]

Can I join the whinge?

Don't get overtime at 'M' either

Sucks tbh :/

 

[LordSplodge]

This would be the Tesco that pays its Store and Area Managers an obscene amount? This would be the Tesco that is a tax exempt bunch of off-shore companies? This would be the Tesco that aggressively buys land to stop other supermarkets?

Just like all the others.

Welcome to Capitalism where the few percent at the top claim all the rewards why the workers get shafted. Makes you proud, don't it?

 

[Ascendancy]

I worked 32 hours overtime last month and got paid just fine at Sainsburys

 

[Andrew_McP]

This would be the Tesco that pays its Store and Area Managers an obscene amount? This would be the Tesco that is a tax exempt bunch of off-shore companies? This would be the Tesco that aggressively buys land to stop other supermarkets?

They may be barstewards, but they're *our* barstewards. Mind you, now they're off-shoring much of their tax liability I'm much less keen. It ought to be an honour to pay so much towards the upkeep of the nation they rely on for much of their profits in the first place. But stock markets tend not to appreciate such things.

My socialist inclinations are inclined to say tough. But in this New Conservilabour age such sentiments are *so* 1970s, darling.

Andrew McP

 

[LordSplodge]

They may be barstewards, but they're *our* barstewards.

I, for one, welcome our new Tesco capitalist overlords.

 

[jmhduck]

I, for one, welcome our new Tesco capitalist overlords.

I love tescos. I'm living in Vienna for a year and there is one main chain called Billa and they are absolutely s***. Hardly any choice and really expensive, tesco provides a good service to the customer otherwise no one would shop there... and compared to Billa's there is a selection of food from heaven.

 

[LordSplodge]

I love tescos.

Me too, even if I do disagree with some of there practices.

 

[OpenToSuggestions]

Bit of an update.
Rang the store manager and arranged a meeting for tomorrow.

My overtime consisted as some sunday (time and a half shifts) as well as regular night shifts.
They owe me circa 200quid but want to forward this onto my uni store as 2 shifts time in lui!!!! I am NOT taking time and a half nor night shifts in lui of a 5hour trolley daytime shift!!!
Night shifts and sundays pay WAY more than days!! not to mention the hours they are ripping me off!! Also I cant go to loughborough with all this excess 'baggage'. 'Hi, I have come back to uni, by the way you owe me lots of shifts off' -I cant do this!!! Loughborough tesco are actually decent too.

Not on imo, if the store manager doesnt see sense I will consult the union.
This is quite taking the pee.