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Am I missing something here? A group of female shop workers are claiming for equal pay for different jobs. 

They claim that the work done by MALE warehouse workers is comparable to the work done by FEMALE shop workers and are claiming for back pay of up to £20000 per person (£4bn in total). 

Where is the gender issue here. Have they not ralised that men also work in shops and women in warehouses? Im confused. Id also like to see some of these folk try to do the warehouse job. Its a total whore of a job based on what I know. They claim that the emotional side of the shop job equals the physical side of the warehouse job. 

I think they are on to plums based on what I can read. 

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Yes, women work in both areas, but disproportionately so. It's about different jobs of 'equal value' being paid differently, it's a tough one to prove. You could argue that a customer-facing job is of higher value than a job stuck away in the back.

Part of the issue may be be down to what was traditionally classed as "men's jobs" and "women's work", where men worked in the warehouses for a family wage and women worked in shops for 'pin money' while raising the family.

Meanwhile, companies like Tesco have trousered ££billions by underpaying their workers, mostly the women in this case. They have also 'cereally' avoided tax and consecutive Westminster governments have facilitated wages being subsidised by taxpayers... all the while directors and shareholders are making fortunes.

Maybe the few who have benefited in the past should be sent invoices to help square up these women.

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It opens a whole can of worms. For example I work in many areas of the shop from customer facing jobs to heavy warehouse work loading and unloading wagons as well as being stock control trained and first aid trained. 

Maybe they should all club together and pay me more.

In all seriousness. If its back pay they are after then fine but there is no way it should stretch up to the present day. Hell not even up till when I started with the company. Also these people (checkout operators and customer service) convieniently forget they were on a higher rate in store than the everyone else for being customer facing even thought the rest of us were dealing with customers as well. 

Anyhoo f**k the coporate juggernaught. Hope this at least leads to fairer pay for all and not just a back pay for a few. 

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I don't understand how they can sight the gender bias in law. Men and women get paid s**t wages for shop-work. Men (and presumably women) get paid less s**t wages by the same corporation for working in their warehouses. Surely it's a business decision just how equally, or indeed unequally, a corporation wants to pay its workers. Or to put it another way, the going rate principal.

I get paid less than a GP. Could I have a claim that because I do a job traditionally done by men but a GP is a job more favoured by women, but the work is of equal value requiring the same level of skill and training, the equal pay act means my employer has to pay me the same as a doctor? Or do these rules only apply where women are paid less than men?

I just don't get this "equality" thing. It seems to mean we want whatever you've got that we don't have but you are entitled to nothing.

   

 

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If it warehouse v store, I don't see how store can or should be of equal value.

In a cold warehouse you'd handle more Tesco assets by value than working in heated store - hence the extra remuneration .

Also if you duff up your picking shift in a warehouse it affects more Tesco shops than a single retail floor error, due to being up the supply chain, mistakes are multiplied.  Therefore IMO for Tescos business its a senior position the Warehouse to working in a shop floor.

Its' probably as much to with how little value the end consumer puts on the retail supply chain, as it is to do with equal opportunities.

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1 hour ago, RAG said:

If it warehouse v store, I don't see how store can or should be of equal value.

In a cold warehouse you'd handle more Tesco assets by value than working in heated store - hence the extra remuneration .

Also if you duff up your picking shift in a warehouse it affects more Tesco shops than a single retail floor error, due to being up the supply chain, mistakes are multiplied.  Therefore IMO for Tescos business its a senior position the Warehouse to working in a shop floor.

Its' probably as much to with how little value the end consumer puts on the retail supply chain, as it is to do with equal opportunities.

The wharehouse job is a tough gig as im led to belive from what the delivery drivers say.  Im pretty sure they get a base wage around minimum wage and are paid by the amount they pick as well. 

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3 minutes ago, cammy_boy said:

The wharehouse job is a tough gig as im led to belive from what the delivery drivers say.  Im pretty sure they get a base wage around minimum wage and are paid by the amount they pick as well. 

Aye performance pay related cos it's a multiplier being up the supply chain. 

Efficient warehouse and all stores are efficient at start of the day - unless they individually screw up!  

Un-efficient warehouse and all the retail stores are at a disadvantage, mistakes need correcting by many times more floor staff.

Is a totally different job (To Tesco) than handling individual items at tills or even a whole department on a single shop floor.

 

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56 minutes ago, RAG said:

Aye performance pay related cos it's a multiplier being up the supply chain. 

Efficient warehouse and all stores are efficient at start of the day - unless they individually screw up!  

Un-efficient warehouse and all the retail stores are at a disadvantage, mistakes need correcting by many times more floor staff.

Is a totally different job (To Tesco) than handling individual items at tills or even a whole department on a single shop floor.

 

I think they are on to plums and the gender bit (which makes absolutly no sense as males/females work in both jobs for equal pay) has been tagged on for impact. 

That said Tesco should be paying shop staff a higher rate around the £10 per hr mark. 

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49 minutes ago, cammy_boy said:

That said Tesco should be paying shop staff a higher rate around the £10 per hr mark. 

Nah.  In Lidl or Aldi the staff get paid more but are more efficient.  The business model of thousands of 50,000 item supermarket is busted in the UK.  If Amazon get into shipping specialist provision food items, as has been done in other retail items with the internet, big out of town supermarkets Tesco ASDA Sainsburys are in big trouble.  The Co-op on the high street not at all - for it was hit by the big out of town stores in last 20 years.

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