All Pay and jobs articles – Page 4
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2025: Mackle wins Supplier Employer of the Year
It’s not easy hiring quality staff as a pet food manufacturer in rural Northern Ireland
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NewsPost Office inquiry report describes ‘immeasurable’ impact on wrongly accused postmasters
The Post Office ‘maintained the fiction that its data was always accurate’, says Wyn Williams in his report
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NewsAsda distribution centre managers get vote on union recognition
More than 1,000 salaried employees working in 23 depots across the UK will take part in a ballot on whether they want GMB to be their recognised union
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NewsAsda slams union claims over low staff pay and minimum wage rules
The GMB union claimed that despite hourly pay rising to £12.45 per hour from 6 July, Asda staff were still lagging behind workers at Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Aldi and Lidl
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Analysis & FeaturesWill workers’ rights bill trigger ‘flurry of tribunals’?
Unions say it doesn’t go far enough; businesses want it softened
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NewsMorrisons tells head office staff to return to five days a week working
The Grocer revealed in January that Morrisons had gone back to a four-and-a-half-day week
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NewsAldi recruiting for 1,000 new store jobs by the end of 2025
Aldi is looking to fill a range of store positions including cleaners, assistants and apprentices, along with opportunities in management
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NewsBrexit: future of environmental health officers in danger amid UK-EU deal
With EU and UK controls on agrifoods set to be massively scaled back, the personnel originally hired to handle the controls could be let go
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NewsTesco boosts employee health benefits with new wellbeing offer
Tesco has boosted employee health benefits for its more than 300,000 members of staff, as it rolls out enhanced employee wellbeing benefits across the business
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NewsMore than 90,000 retail jobs lost last year amid ‘rising tide’ of employment costs
ONS figures show 360,000 roles have been lost from the retail sector over the past decade, warned the BRC
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Analysis & FeaturesThe pay gap gap: how mandatory reporting will soon go beyond gender
Chasms remain in pay gap reporting – but not for long. Moves are afoot to introduce mandatory reporting on ethnicity and disability pay gaps, on top of the gender requirement. How should companies prepare for the changes, and will socioeconomic background be next on the list?
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NewsMedia Bites 6 June: Trump vs Musk, Pret a Manger IPO, P&G jobs
A rift between US president Donald Trump and Tesla boss Elon Musk is shaking up markets this morning
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NewsRetail bosses call for steel industry-style intervention to tackle jobs crisis
The BRC said ministers had been hammering its sector with an avalanche of extra costs
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NewsMedia Bites 5 June: free school meals, mental health, AI
Free school meals are to be extended to 500,000 more children, the government has said
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NewsLincolnshire Co-op poaches Asda director as new chief people officer
Lincolnshire Co-op is also making a promotion to fill a newly created role of chief transformation officer
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ProfilesMy food & drink job: Amy Day, senior brand manager, Mr Kipling
‘When you say to someone you work for Mr Kipling they will almost always tell you their favourite Mr Kipling cake!’
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NewsM&S stores staging walk-in recruitment open days amid cyberattack disruption
M&S suspended online recruitment, along with clothing and home orders, after hackers took control of its systems in a cyberattack in April
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NewsJohn Lewis determined to reinstate bonus ‘as soon as possible’ amid staff campaign
’Thousands’ of current and former partners have called on John Lewis to reinstate its annual bonus
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NewsPotato supplier Branston appoints new chief operating officer
Jason Kelly brings with him more than 25 years of experience in senior roles, including most recently as vice-president of global manufacturing for Krispy Kreme
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NewsLidl among 500 employers named by government for failing to pay minimum wage
Despite boasting sector-leading entry-level hourly rates of pay, Lidl is among 518 businesses named and shamed by the Department for Business & Trade