Asda have been criticised for putting their employees in such a position, especially with the run up to Christmas, meaning employees are simply in a position where they cannot afford to lose their jobs, effectively forcing them to comply. However, this increase comes at a cost as the contractual changes are set to strip employees of several perks, including their service benefits, paid tea breaks and having Bank Holidays off, as well as being made to work across different departments. The contract change itself increases hourly wages to £9, whilst placing staff on flexible contracts.
However, these changes have since been made compulsory and were implemented this Summer. This implemented change was first introduced in 2017 whereby workers were offered an optional salary increase in exchange for forfeiting several rights, done by means of voluntarily signing up to Asda’s new and amended employment contracts. Now, this isn’t to do with the salmonella outbreak affecting mass supplies of humous, of which Asda was affected but it more so relates to the supermarket chain’s 140,000 strong work force.Īsda recently announced mandatory changes that were set to be implemented in the Summer regarding their employee’s contracts of employment. It may have come to your attention that the British supermarket chain, Asda, (owned by US retail giant Walmart) has been in heavy circulation within the news recently.
