Tesco to drop extra payment for Sunday working!

I am not surprised. If they can staff the shops without paying extra of course they'll.

Do you think the same about cafes, pubs, public transport, museums, country parks....

Not unreasonable for them to stop the Sunday payment and also not unreasonable for workers to decide it’s not worth it and find another job. It’s a business so not sure why you are surprised they are looking after their interests. Good that they will raise overall pay though.

I think it is sad.

Just because other retailers don't pay it, doesn't make it "right" or a good thing that Tesco are removing money from people who have come to rely on it over the years.

Yeah my company stopped doing this like 15 years ago. Its actually a much riskier job than Tesco involves lone working till the middle of the night. All for the minimum wage. And then you have to see people in Sainsbury's/Tesco who get paid more and spend most their time standing around chatting and still finding something to moan about

Not everyone works a typical pattern though, working Sunday doesn’t mean you don’t get to see your family. The world has move on from that idea.

I’m surprised anyone still paid extra on a Sunday. There was a premium on Sundays and bank holidays because it was hard to recruit for those days, there are now more than enough people who want to work an alternative to m-f 9-5 and so it makes sense for them to remove the extra payment.

So that workers can spend time with family and benefit from bank holidays just like everyone else does.

That's bad. Everyone saying they don't get overtime so are surprised.. join a fucking union and organise for Sunday rates instead of acting like it should be the norm. Do you think poor parents should be contracted to work weekends and not see their children? There is a reason for Sunday pay.

Why?

Ah the good old days when Sunday trading first became a thing and I got double pay for working a 6 hour shift.

For most people now, Sunday is little different to Saturday so the only difference I can see is the shorter shifts - and maybe a need to pay a higher hourly rate to compensate staff for having relatively higher travel time and costs for a shorter shift.

It was nice while it lasted....

Shops should either shut on Sundays or pay their staff double time. Saturday should be time and a half or they should shut Saturdays as well.

Most shops scrapped this year's ago

I remember the keep Sunday special campaign and my Mother’s disgust that shops were to even open on a Sunday. Consumerism became the new Church to worship at.

I was paid double time on Sundays in 1997, in a department store.
I only worked weekends and was the cheapest member of staff. None of the managers ever worked on sunday.

I'm pretty sure I read on MN a while ago you could request not to, or opt out of, working on Sundays, with a link to a gov website page.

No it’s existing staff. New staff already didn’t get it.

Currently the pay (I assume for most staff) is 12.02 x 10% uplift so £13.22 an hour. This is going up to £12.64 in August but no uplift. So £0.58 an hour worse off for every Sunday hour worked. Tesco have said there will be a one off payment for Sunday staff, but conspicuously absent on details.

Not sure if a Tesco subsidiary would be exactly the same though.

They're late to the party! When I was a teen I worked for a cheap discount store, it wasn't long after the Sunday Trading Laws had been updated so they were new opening on Sundays. No enhanced rate paid on a Sunday, they made sure it was written in your contract. £2.50 an hour, whatever day!

On the railways some operators run Sunday services on OT so sometimes trains are cancelled.

I work seven on, two off on my roster (unless I'm on nights, in which case I get 3-4 days off prior as a long weekend) so working Sundays is normal for me, but I get paid a very good salary for that. I only get "extra hours" or OT if asked to work a day off or do some extra hours before or after my rostered ones.

Some part-time colleagues prefer to work weekends to reduce childcare costs and so they can actually spend time with their children.

I don't think Sundays should be considered sacrosanct anymore. People do lots of different things on Sundays, and other people work on Sundays to facilitate that.

Not sure its that's simple my dh works for a subsidury, of Tesco and working some Sundays is part of his contract
Is this for newer employees Op?

I don’t think people are grasping that staff are effectively worse off after their pay rise and that shouldn’t be the case. Lots of single parents will be £50-£60 a month down due to the Sunday premium being scrapped. In what world should a company that makes billions leave their staff worse off after a pay rise? It’s pure corporate greed, no excuse for it.

Yes I absolutely would. I had no idea they did get weekend premiums.

I think if you take on a career that involves weekend work you know what you are signing up for.

I worked in an animal rescue centre for 10 years. Weekend work. Retail, restaurants, cafes, pubs, hotels, gyms, emergency services, airport staff, bus drivers, cinema staff, museum staff. There are countless industries that involve weekend work. Tesco isn’t special. It is very, very normal to work weekends for millions of people.

For many people it is a draw as they get time off during the week instead, easier to get appointments, every where is quieter, useful for childcare etc. So you shouldn’t need incentivised to work the weekend. It’s either something you are willing to accept as part of your industry or you work in a different industry.

In my public sector 365 office we still pay 1.5 pay for weekends. Used to be double for a Sunday. Does seem outmoded as weekends are popular. Quieter and helps people with childcare. It adds about 20% to average pay though so can’t see our unions letting it go.

I'm in Oz, we still get time and a half on Saturday, double on Sundays and triple on Public Holidays. My son loves it, almost $80 (about 40 quid) an hour for delivering takeaway on the public hols.

Many moons ago I worked at Wilkinsons then wilko. I used to get 7.50an hour.. Sundays was double time. 15 an hour was amazing! But if honest, totally unnecessary. Sundays aren't seen as a day of rest nowadays, just another day and it was usually quiet. It wasn't nice having a new contract saying otherwise but I can see why they stopped it. It must be quite rare in retail to have an enhancement for Sundays that isn't abnormal hours?

I used to love doing the Sunday shift when I worked at Tesco. We had a rota as everyone wanted to do it. I guess as supermarkets are open all hours now it’s not unusual to expect to work a Sunday in retail.