Sainsbury's refusing applications if living more than 20 miles away

starrystarry

gringo69 wrote: »

I have emailed Justin King, the CEO for his comments.

Like he's going to take the time to reply personally.

TrickyWicky

Nothing wrong as far as I can see. It's discrimination by location yes but there is no law against that at all. If Sainsburys only want to employ local people thats down to them - no amount of pestering them and bad mouthing them on the MSE forums can change that.

I doubt they pay much either so then you'd be mumbling under your breath about the wages - they don't want that in their stores.

Eggs and baskets. You couldn't be 100% guaranteed they'd of taken your partner anyway even if within the 20 miles thing so you were shooting yourselves in the foot relying on it anyway. It was quite literally a long shot.

LadyMissA

marybelle01 wrote: »

Why? Did you say that just to promote one?

no but I am sure you are typing a reply now !!

marybelle01

gringo69 wrote: »

the email did say it was variable and some were less than 20 miles.
Thanks too to DreamerV and Christineperdeus for your comments.
I have emailed Justin King, the CEO for his comments.

Oh dear, another poster that only wants the answers they want, even when they are wrong.

So you have now e-mailed the CEO - I suggest your wife tries Tesco's because that file will be getting bigger at Sainsburys.

marybelle01

LadyMissA wrote: »

no but I am sure you are typing a reply now !!

No. You aren't worth it.

LadyMissA

marybelle01 wrote: »

No. You aren't worth it.

Oh how funny you are! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Sambucus_Nigra

gringo69 wrote: »

the email did say it was variable and some were less than 20 miles.
Thanks too to DreamerV and Christineperdeus for your comments.
I have emailed Justin King, the CEO for his comments.

So you are after only comments that agree with you?

Oh, ok then. You should have said so in your first post.

Googlewhacker

gringo69 wrote: »

the email did say it was variable and some were less than 20 miles.
Thanks too to DreamerV and Christineperdeus for your comments.
I have emailed Justin King, the CEO for his comments.

Thanks to those that agree with you then

At the end of the day its not illegal and they can do what they want hiring wise (as long as they don't discriminate against a protected characteristic)....they must get inundated with people from all over the country and its one way of wittling it down.

I'd be amazed if he replies, whatever he puts for the reasoning you won't be happy with...

Emmzi

not all discrimination is illegal discrimination.

for example I discriminate on grounds of "ability to do the job" or we'd all be in a mess!

pineapple

As said there is nothing illegal about this policy. Though I suspect that the reasoning behind 'local jobs for local people' is that anyone taking on a low pay job requiring extensive/expensive commuting is more likely to be doing it as an emergency stop gap or is more likely to tire of it quite soon. There are so many applicants for each post these days, they probably still have plenty to choose from after the restrictions. Knowing how many applied when a recent Asda store opened, they probably need as many means of sifting out applications as possible. Plus there will be less transport hassles with locals.
I suspect that applicants for senior management posts will have rather more leeway