Asda Colleague Handbook Holidays For 2017 To 2018

Posted : admin | On 20-05-2021

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Asda has offered a pay rise to its 135,000 employees if they sign a new “flexible “contract which will introduce a requirement to be available to work during bank holidays and not to be paid for breaks.

The supermarket group will pay those workers who sign the new contract £8.50 an hour from October this year, above the current wage of £7.44 and £1 more than the £7.50 National Living Wage rate due to come into force in April.

Asda Colleague Handbook Holidays For 2017 To 2018

The contract is voluntary, said Asda, which is owned by US retail giant Walmart, predicting, however, that 95 per cent of current employees will be better off if they move to the new deal.

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If they chose not to, their base rate will move up to the minimum national rate of £7.50 an hour in April and they will retain their existing contract.

In Monday’s release, Asda also maintained its on-going commitment not to use zero-hour contracts, under which the employer is not obliged to provide a minimum number of hours of work.

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However, the new agreement also means that employees must work on bank holidays if the store requires them or chose to take days out of their 28 days of annual leave.

Staff who opt into the new contracts will also move to unpaid breaks, Asda said, and employees working night shifts will be paid extra for anti-social hours between midnight and 5am.

That’s a reduction from the current window of 10pm until 6am, but the extra pay or premium rate for those times will rise from £2.04 to £2.54 an hour.

“Our current employment contracts have evolved over decades. They mean we have different colleagues on different terms and they don’t give our colleagues the level of flexibility our customers need to meet their changing needs,“ Hayley Tatum, Asda’s senior vice president of people, said.

“This new contract will also mean that colleagues can gain a broader level of experience across their store, which will in turn give them better opportunities to progress and develop their career in retail,” she added.

The new contracts have also been approved by the GMB union.

“These new flexible contracts will help to ensure job security, ensure those accepting them are on the same terms and - best of all – ensure that people will earn more money as a result. The new contract offer involves quite a few changes, but as it’s voluntary, this allows colleagues to choose whatever suits their circumstances best,” Tim Roache, GMB’s General Secretary, said.

Michael Hibbs, employment law partner at Shakespeare Martineau, said: 'It is likely that this type of flexible contract will not suit everyone, but, the voluntary nature of the arrangement at this stage will give employees the option.'

'However, whether Asda will put some gentle pressure on employees is of course not clear at this stage.'

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Dunstable, England, Bedfordshire, GBReview updated:

im a colleague at this store and fairly recently we had a new counters manager arrive on our department since then he has been completely stubborn and unhelpful, rude, mildly sexist towards some female colleagues and whenever we ask him for help he totally dismisses us and he always stays upstairs off the shop floor and offering support and has an unproffessional attitude towards us colleagues and customers have been known to complain about him aswell and he never follows company policy especially when holidays are concerned, and when he has the cheek to dicipline us, he raises his and treat us like vermin and as if we were beneath him in an equality state, he has called colleagues liars when trying to tell the truth to him, he doesnt listen when we tell him about stuff that needs doing like off-sales, he has no respect for the individual and why can we have a manager who cares about the department and the colleagues who work there, instead of some incompetent fool, this person should not be a manager on any department and is a pitiful excuse for one aswell, nly wish our gsm would get to realise and do the right thing and sack him and then perhaps morale will improve and us colleagues can be happy again and not depressed and miserable on a daily basis.