Tesco to drop extra payment for Sunday working!

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It says they will increase wages though in general.

No more extra for working Sundays though!

I'm surprised anyone would be paid extra for Sundays in the 1st place unless it's overtime.

Dont work sundays then.

I used to get paid double time on sundays. When they stopped paying double time, i stopped working them.

I worked in sainsburys 15 years ago and Sundays were a contracted day for me, they’d scrapped extra pay on Sundays well before I joined so I’m surprised this was still a thing at Tesco

I worked a Sunday shift 99-02 at the co-op and it was never overtime rate so surprised they still have it at Tesco.

Neither M&S or ASDA pay extra for Sundays. M&S you tend to work both days every other weekend, in ASDA you usually work Sat or Sun.

I worked for Argos which is owned by Sainsbury’s and we haven’t been paid extra for any shifts for many years . Sunday was a normal working day of the week . They even cut the night shifts down to 3am finish and only paid extra between midnight and 3am and then cut them altogether , making putting away deliveries only til 10pm so no night rates . Wages are getting tighter and tighter .

I worked for Boots in the late 90s and one woman in my department was paid extra for working Sundays because she had been there before Sunday opening for shops. Anyone on a contract drawn up since Sunday openings didn’t get paid extra.

I worked for Tesco 99 to 2001 and nobody had mandatory Sunday shifts. It was double time and people would dash to get their names on the rota. I quite enjoyed doing a couple a month. I worked Saturdays 12 til 6.30, Monday 7am to noon and a Wednesday 4 pm til 9.30 close . It was always a great payday if you got two Sundays shifts in the previous month.
It was time and a half for anyone who started after a certain date and looks like it's just an extra 10% now until it gets scrapped.

Well that sort of comment just shows how successful the big retailers have been in shifting the paradigm.

It was double time for a Sunday, and time and a half on Saturdays, in the early nineties, when I was working in retail.

And then the retail companies decided that the weekends should be treated like a weekday and slowly chipped away at the overall pay package (whilst successfully lobbying for extended weekend opening hours).

By the late 00’s they’d got that put to bed and moved on to take away their shop-floor staff’s job security (and ability to say no to short notice shift changes) via the imposition of zero-hour contracts.

If it wasn’t (currently) protected by statute, they’d be opening the larger stores on Christmas Day.

I'm surprised they still offer it. I worked in retail in the late 90s/early 00s and got nothing extra for Sunday working.

If the overall pay goes up, then it all balances out in the end.

I think the double pay on Sundays is smart though as it incentives people not to request to not work them (as it's a statutory right to opt out so many do to guarantee a weekend day off) and then shops have an issue with staffing on that day. Double pay sorts that problem 😂

Sunday trading was only brought in in 1994 so I’m not surprised you were paid extra for a Sunday in the early 90s.

Its surprising that anyone is shocked by this.

Employers are always going to pay the least they can get away with while still managing to recruit sufficient people with the skills to do the job.

Sunday used to be an unpopular time for working so it attracted a premium payment or they wouldn't be able to fill the shifts. They are now confident that they can recruit enough staff without the premium, because culture has shifted.

I worked a Saturday job at tescos in late 90s and I can remember that they didn’t rota Sundays and it was double pay so lots of people rushed to sign up. My brother did it before me and made tonnes of money but I was more studious and so rarely got to do it as did homework on Sundays. I earned £3.30 an hour on a Saturday checkout.

Waitrose do, or they did, not sure if they stopped it.
They worked on Sundays because it was better pay.

I get time and a half for working on a Sunday but you need special permission from your line manager. It’s irritating to me as I’m perfectly happy to work a Sunday. Just finishing admin stuff that can be done at home. I normally get creative and just add on any Sunday working to Saturday on my time sheet but it’s a bit silly that I have to.

It’s been on the cards for a while now. It’s going to be interesting to see how many people opt out of Sunday working now there’s no incentive to do it. Everyone is saying it’s not a big thing but they’ll all complain when stores are not staffed properly and they can’t get what they need and have to queue for ages at checkouts. They keep making more money every year yet pay staff less, if they could make billions last year when they paid the premium I don’t see what’s changed.

Weekend working can be very attractive for working parents who want to try to share childcare between them to save on nursery costs. It's not the big ask that it was in the past when Sundays were sacred. If it means a weekday off instead then some people may even prefer it - they can do their own personal stuff on their weekday off when it's much quieter, drive elderly parents to medical appointments, book their car in for a service etc. All of which is hard to do at the weekend if you work FT every week day.

And really, it comes down to business need. Sunday is one of the busiest days of the week at my local Tesco. It's HEAVING because most people work FT and have no choice but to do their main shop at the weekend.

I used to work at M&S in the early 2000s.
got time and a half on a Sunday. Later, I heard that it had gone down to time and a quarter. Not surprised they’ve removed the extra altogether now.

If I go shopping on a Sunday, the food I buy isn’t any more expensive than on the other days of the week, so why would a retailer reduce its profit margins by paying staff more on a Sunday?

DS was very lucky to get the Sunday shift at Waitrose about 15 years ago, I think it was time and half, I think they stopped it after he left about 10 years ago, he was very lucky. I'm surprised Tesco still paid extra, probably one of the last to do so

They are about 15 years later than most other retailers! Thought double time Sundays and bank holidays for retail were a long gone thing of the past!

Waitrose scrapped Sunday pay in 2015.

Waitrose stopped it for new starters in 2016, not sure when it was stopped for workers already there. DS worked there in the good times, time and a half and they were paying large bonuses, he did really well for a student job.

Sunday is just another day. It’s very outdated to assume it isn’t . Millions of people work Sunday as a normal day so I’m not surprised they are scrapping it