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26-03-2021, 09:07 AM | #1 | |||
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This will affect Other Supermarkets
LBC Live debating this now [Asda loses Supreme Court appeal in equal pay fight] [The Supreme Court upheld an earlier court ruling that lower-paid shop staff, who are mostly women, can compare themselves with higher paid warehouse workers, who are mostly men. The judge stressed the ruling did not mean the 45,000 claimants had won the right to equal pay. However, they are now free to take further action.] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56534988 Last edited by arista; 26-03-2021 at 09:09 AM. |
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26-03-2021, 09:47 AM | #2 | |||
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This Witch doesn't burn
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26-03-2021, 09:49 AM | #3 | |||
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The new owners wont be happy.
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26-03-2021, 10:01 AM | #4 | |||
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26-03-2021, 10:07 AM | #5 | |||
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So people with different jobs got paid different amounts?
What was stopping the women from working in the warehouse? |
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26-03-2021, 10:15 AM | #6 | |||
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A lot of times with Supermarket jobs you apply and are just put where ever you're told to go. Not sure about this case but I worked in Supermarket as a teenager and was just placed wherever the manager told me to go. Both my kids have part time jobs in a local Super market and it was the same thing, my son was put on Tills and my daughter works in their Pizza section, his friend also works there and he was put on the floor/warehouse. They all get paid the same though (actually my daughter gets paid more but that's to do with age bands, under 18's get paid less and she's worked there longer)
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26-03-2021, 11:03 AM | #7 | |||
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26-03-2021, 11:05 AM | #8 | |||
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Not saying it's the case here of course, that's just my own personal experience, might be different over there
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26-03-2021, 11:09 AM | #9 | ||
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As otherwise I did see it as a 'different jobs' thing. Warehouse work is so much harder physically obviously, than sitting on the till or something.
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26-03-2021, 11:15 AM | #10 | ||
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I'm not a huge fan of the age-banding that Niamh mentioned either; all people over 16 should be paid the same hourly wage for doing the same jobs. Labour (and that labourer's time) is not less valuable because of the age of the labourer. It also encourages the hiring of younger people as cheap temporary labour instead of creating real, permanent roles. |
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26-03-2021, 11:19 AM | #11 | ||
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Honestly I completely disagree with this stance, wages should be dependant on responsibilities, qualifications and level of experience and not on a subjective impression of "how hard" the job is. Spent far, far too long listening to retired tradies and manual laborers blaring on about how "young'uns these days don't know what a hard days work is" when, frankly, they couldn't have done my job if they merged all their braincells into one head - nor would one of them have had a fraction of the required patience.
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26-03-2021, 11:28 AM | #12 | |||
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26-03-2021, 11:34 AM | #13 | ||
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It's one of the very few things my old place of work did right. Obviously you had to be 18 to work there at all, but then the wage structure was the same whether you were 18 or 50 (in the same role). |
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26-03-2021, 11:36 AM | #14 | |||
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26-03-2021, 01:32 PM | #15 | |||
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Same with 'apprenticeships' in silly things. The word apprentice is only used in order to pay pennies..subway needs ' apprentice sandwich artists' indeed Quote:
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26-03-2021, 01:34 PM | #16 | |||
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26-03-2021, 01:35 PM | #17 | ||
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Yeah of course. Its different if its a proper trade. But making out you need loads of qualifications/training to make sandwiches is ridiculous and quite obviously is only about paying the lowest wages possible rather than qualifications.
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26-03-2021, 01:37 PM | #18 | |||
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100%, that's exploitation and should be illegal
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26-03-2021, 03:21 PM | #19 | ||
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"Real" apprenticeships are fine but some of the newer ones - which thankfully from what I can tell have never really taken off - are nothing but slave labour. "Apprenticeship in Retail Customer Service" is an actual joke.
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26-03-2021, 04:04 PM | #20 | |||
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Tesco are also
in the same position as Asda |
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26-03-2021, 05:09 PM | #21 | |||
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They need to stop chatting whilst they drag your fresh veg over the dirty beep beep bit, leaving frustrated customers sighing at the lack of speed from 2.8 metres away to earn that extra 3 quid imo.
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