What is Pay rate for Tesco's per hour?

jaggedmentality wrote: »

minimum wage employers? bear in mind that one its a 2.5% or so payrise for all staff during a period when half the public sector had a wage freeze. then you factor in there are no qualifications taken into account when you are interviewed for said job. Plus after a set period you get a discount card entitling you to 10% off shopping plus the same reward points.. a pension scheme 2nd to none and a life insurance policy built into your contract when you are permanent staff. Add to that after a years service you get 5% of your annual wage in free shares every year thereafter. Plus a management scheme that judges you on merit rather than a paper degree.... go figure.... Throw in a decent pension and i find it hard to see your point? Yeah its only a pound above minimum wage but its not a taxing job. Granted it can be busy... ie xmas but for a walk in job... not too bad.

I would have been too ashamed to have trotted out any of that.

A 2.5% pay rise compared with the public sector freeze? What about compared with salary rises those on the management boards of major supermarkets (like Tesco) will expect? Fair play if they make a point of taking a pay freeze or a rise on the same scale as staff, but something tells me they won't.

A 10% discount on shopping plus the same reward points? You get excited by such small things if you choose, it leaves me totally unmoved. An improved basic salary would be a much better and fairer way of doing things.

5% in shares after a year's service. For someone on £7 an hour, that's a salary of £14,500 for a 40-hour week. So £700 in shares for those at the bottom? Throw the dogs a bone? Is that it?

And the pension scheme? Just how generous is it? How good a pension can someone on £14,500 a year manage to set aside? Who makes up the shortfall? Tesco? It appears far too busy avoiding paying proper UK taxes to do that.

I had no idea about any of this until I came across A.L.D.A.'s post and started looking for more information..

It seems over the last decade or two, salary rises for the vast majority (certainly those on or below the average wage - which is around £22,000-£25,000 a year depending on whose figures you believe) have barely kept pace with inflation and, in some cases, have dropped back. The cost of everything - from housing to utility costs - has risen exponentially. Few of us have kept pace, certainly nobody on average wage. Frankly, that's a recipe for disaster.

Finally, the comment you make about being able to walk into a low-paid job at Tesco without qualifications, carries a deeply patronising, dismissive and exploitative tone to it that I find disturbing. Are you happy for anyone to be exploited by any company which makes such vast profits? That's what paying only slightly above minimum wage is - exploitation.

If you cannot 'see the point' of my post it is because you choose not to see the point.

No matter. I cannot, on my own, change Tesco's attitude or that of any other retailer. I can change where I spend my money. I never thought I'd become a militant shopper, but this issue has incensed me. Tesco will get no more of my money.

I predict you will be a very hungry boy if you export this attitude to anyone you buy from.

Now call me cynical but how many posts do jaggedmentality & markprest have? On this recently resurrected thread!

markprest wrote: »

Would that be the attitude of expecting people to be paid a fair wage and not cheering for those companies which pay vast sections of their workforce pennies above the bare minimum?

Yes. Their employees should be grateful for what they have and not complain. Compared to several decades ago, or those living in poorer countries (read: about 90% of the planet) they're living the life of riley on 14.5K. The fact that the company throws in stocks (+dividend, + potential capital growth, which could act as a 2nd pension) is a real bonus. Certainly more favourable than the bottom of the public sector.

I can't imagine what your delivery charges are ordering all your food from Cuba and North Korea.

dmxdave wrote: »

Now call me cynical ........

Dave,
You are cynical.