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Just another way of reducing night staff in stores. If your backstock is done by twilight staff then they will argue that you don’t need as many hours on nights. Seems inevitable that eventually there will be no night staff at all. They should do the right thing and at least offer redundancy
The same happened at my store last year, No night fill on grocery, only fresh. Our staff were given basically no information for months, we were just told that grocery would move to a twilight fill but fresh would stay on nights. It’s not gone well, the grocery delivery is never completed, the shop floor is a disgrace every day and over the Christmas period there was so much stock left unworked in the warehouse we barely had room to put the next days grocery delivery when it turned up at 7am. The union were useless as normal, they gave us no help, and no information whatsoever. In my opinion Tesco should have offered redundancy but they somehow got away with it. I was surprised by how many night staff just accepted it and didn’t try to fight it. My advice to you all is to fight it, refuse to move and hold firm, don’t let them walk all over you.
We are now 10 weeks into our change and so far its disastrous, the store is a total bin every night, grocery deliveries don’t get finished on a daily basis, availability is shot to pieces and the shop floor looks a disgrace every single day. The only area thats seen an improvement is fresh as we still have a night crew on there so the work is getting done. It seems clear that it’s not working but management are too arrogant to admit defeat and change things back. All this to save a few quid a night on night premium…absolute joke
I signed up for the Leigh Day equal pay claim years and years ago, I get the occasional e-mail from them about their progress in the case but so far they have won nothing so I have never received a penny. It’s not a scam but it’s getting hard to believe they will ever actually get a settlement at this point. It’s no win, no fee so its not costing me anything.
As far as I am aware its a store specific change, I’ve not heard of any other stores locally doing it
Clearly not everyone will be able to stay on nights, the vast majority will have to move to twilights so I agree that redundancy should have been on the table but it’s not. At some point in the future fresh will also be moved onto days and at that point I cannot see a way they can avoid offering redundancy, moving grocery to twilights removes the bulk of the potential redundancy bill for when it does arise so that’s why they are doing it this way. Unless the affected grocery staff challenge them they will get away with it but as I said before most staff are too afraid or do not feel like they are in a position to refuse in fear of losing their jobs.
This is precisely what’s happening in my store, perhaps mine is the store you are referring to. Grocery will no longer be filled at night, it’s moving to twilights, fresh and frozen is staying on nights. They are able to get away with not offering redundancy because there is still technically a night shift but you have to move to fresh or frozen. Clearly in reality they could not possibly give everybody from grocery hours on fresh so most will inevitably end up having to move to twilights. No redundancy, there’s the choice between a single lump sum pay out or protected pay for either 18 months or 2 years…it’s not been made clear which it is. It’s pretty outrageous that no redundancy has been offered and I think if someone really wanted to challenge it they would likely win the case and get the payout but Tesco know most people will just go along with it to keep a job. This is the only information we have been given, we don’t know how many hours are available on fresh, we don’t know what the shift times will be, 1-10pm and 3-12pm have been bandied about but thats it. Just been told grocery is going to be filled on days, there’s no redundancy and the affected staff were given availability forms to fill out. So far its been handled badly to say the least.
