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 was chatting with assistant in John Lewis a few weeks ago, she told me that staff who’d been there a ‘long while’ were on double pay for Sundays but newly contracted employees were on basic pay. Seems unfair to me!

Tesco pay people a premium for antisocial hours so that person on Tuesday would get extra.

Plus the one off payment will mean so many people won’t get universal credit for that month because it pushes them over the threshold. They are really not doing them any favours by paying them off.

Just a hangover from when most people in this country were proper Christian and went to church on Sunday as it was a day of rest (rather than just going for school entry and nice wedding photos).
Now people's religious days could be Thursday Friday Saturday or Sunday we need to get rid of this extra pay business.
Unfortunately for long service staff you cannot change their contacts.

It’s going up but it’s not going up enough o cover the difference. I’ve been in tesco for the past 6 years and I had the premium (newly joined colleagues haven’t had it for awhile now), and now they took away the premium and given us a pay rise that doesn’t cover the difference. I only work Sundays as I am in university so now I am worse off than before working the same hours and the same job😂

This is exactly my position!!! As a student I am getting a pay cut and have been getting no pay rises because they’ve slowly been cutting the premium away with every pay rise!

I think Tesco are pretty much the last remaining retialsler to pay it

People are paid what their contract says they should be paid.

People employed before Sunday working was the norm had an upper hand in negotiations when firms suddenly wanted them to work on Sunday. They offered the going rate.

Now Sunday working has become the norm, people are used to signing up for no extra.

That does not mean that the longer serving employees should have to give up what they, and their unions fought for at the time.

yep! It's absolutely ridiculous what locums and agency staff are getting paid for extra weekend working. People don't stop needing health care at the weekend. The NHS should really be staffed all week.. Some people would WANT a day off in the week in lieu of a weekend day.

I'm all for keeping Sunday special if we can also go back to a situation where one parent's FT salary can support a family, so that the other parent can afford to be a SAHP for a few years, or for as long as they want, making life a bit more sedate and less frantic all round for all family members. Quite easy to go back to "easy, laidback Sunday with one parent cooking a roast every week while the other parent does some gardening or takes the kids out for a bit and the afternoons are spent totally chilling because all the household jobs and shopping have already been finished during the week."

As it is now we have a situation where families are absolutely mad busy with both parents working FT just to have the basics, life is frantic and fraught and household jobs, gardening, hair appointments, visiting relatives, taking kids to birthday parties or clubs etc and shopping all have to be squeezed into the weekend.

I remember the times of chilled Sundays with fondness. It was nice not to be rushing here, there and everywhere with my parents. Shame those days are long gone.

Night work is different because sleeping at night is what humans do.Bank holidays are different because Government has said they are national holidays ( which some people will have to work)
Weekends are no different now to any other day. Rightly or wrongly.

I think that the minimum wage should be higher for overnight working at least, and perhaps Sundays.

They must have started before 2015 when the contracts changed. They kept people on the contracts they were already on. Same with BH & overtime premiums. You keep the terms of your original contract.
It changed from time & half for Sunday, BH & OT to single time in 2015. There are a few partners from even older contracts (20 years plus) on double time.

Most other places have got rid of increased pay already🤷‍♂️

I used to work in healthcare (not NHS). It was in my contract that I had to work alternate weekends. And nights on rotation, usually one month in six.

These poor supermarket owners must really be feeling the pinch.

It should be double time for working Sundays or Nights
Time and a half for working Saturdays.
Time and a third for working any hours outside of 8-6 (unsociable hours)
And this should be enshrined in law. Workers should not be allowed to "opt out".

Yes they did, lost contact now with them. Do they still get enhanced pay at Waitrose for Sundays.

I used to get double time in Waitrose when I was 17! £12/hr for an 8 hr shift (in 2001). Those were the days.

My friend is in john Lewis, has been there 20 odd years. She gets double time every sunday and bank holiday.
And she will get 6 months off with full pay when she is there 25 years. And nearly £500 in gift vouchers.

New staff there 6 years or less get nothing except basic pay.

What about in the NHS. Remember when you got extra for weekends and night shifts. Does that still happen?

Funny how the right wingers who are usually so upset about "Christian values" and "British culture" have nothing to say about this.

People want a 24/7 lifestyle so it is not a surprise, people never think through the implications of what they want a lot of the time

I was happy to get extra for working Sundays as I couldn't work Saturday (Jewish, didn't grow up in a strict household but no going to work). I have friends who are happy to work Christmas for this reason as well.

Maybe the unions should fight for better terms for new employees!