Not long ago, according to the news.com.au, Australia`s Fair work Council announced a cut in overtime pay for some of the industry`s weekdays.
How do you know a Western Australia Coles put forward a more extreme request last week: ask employees to work overtime on weekdays, no money, only Pizza!
The notice from the manager of the Coles supermarket in Western Australia reads as follows:
"staff,
I have a request from all of you.
As you can see, the stock of goods in our warehouse is very large. Therefore, I hereby implore members to work voluntarily for 4 hours.
Yes, it`s a bit difficult, and I wouldn`t have made such a request if I hadn`t had to.
On the 19th, on this Sunday, I intend to count 78 cases of goods on six trays.
The inventory starts at 5:30 until 9: 30 p. M. There will be enough pizza for everyone when the job is finished.
We have a total of 65 members. If everyone could get involved, the job would be easier, and maybe we could get home early, and that would be even better.
The excess stock has affected everyone in the supermarket, especially those who check the gap between the goods every day. So I hope everyone can devote their time to doing it.
I shall be grateful for your assistance. "
After saying so much, I just want people to work overtime for free! As a result, Coles employees are a bit disgruntled. They contacted Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers Association (SDA), a trade union of employees in Western Australia`s retail fast food industry.
SDA`s secretary, Peter O`Keeffe, said the Coles`s proposal was "unacceptable."
"it is clear that the manager asked his employees for free work for personal reasons. As soon as he posted the notice, the staff in the store contacted us. We have telephoned the manager and told him that it was unacceptable and unacceptable. The manager also argued, but later withdrew the notice, "O`Keeffe said.
SDA also contacted Coles`s head office. Executives at the head office also expressed surprise and promised to take steps to ensure that such a situation would not happen again.
A Coles employee named Nick wrote a letter to the media revealing the pressure of working at Coles.
"I`ve been working late in Coles for four years. I think the manager is doing this because the head of Coles in the entire region has asked him to finish the work within a certain amount of time. The volume of the task has been greatly increased, but the time given has been sharply reduced. "
"if you want to get the job done, you have to increase the budget, but the headquarters has not been approved."
In the letter, Nick also mentioned that supermarkets would conduct comprehensive inspections only if senior executives from (over east) in the Eastern region visited them. "if the executives visit them secretly, they will find out how bad the management of each store is."
There are also insiders say that in Coles, unpaid labor is a very common phenomenon.
"working hours and salaries have been cut, but more and more work has been done."
"everyone has to overwork. The manager is also expected to issue such a notice because his superiors asked him to finish his work with no extra money. "
In response to these allegations, Coles`s official statement is that Coles has always attached importance to the hard work of every employee. The approach of this branch is completely at odds with the way we work. The manager is a trainee manager. His notice had been removed, and any employee who worked during that time could be paid as usual.
However, netizens have commented on the revelations:
"it`s up to employees to decide whether to work overtime and provide dinner. Coles is not the first company to do this, and it won`t be the last. We all have to remember that if you don`t want to do this job, there`s no need to do it. "
"Why don`t you ask the other Coles managers to help? Because of the reduction of staff, the situation that could have been controlled has become this way. Before without cutting staff, supermarket goods can be updated in a timely manner, the supermarket can be packed in a neat manner. Now let the struggling staff help! It can only be said that the fault is not on the staff, the blame is on the higher-level executives! "
Coles and Woolworths`s low-cost imports have ruined Australian farmers and local manufacturers. This is the next time to squeeze low-paid employees. They only have profit in their eyes. "
"I`m not all surprised at that. People who do not work in the retail industry will not understand how much pressure they have to bear. Especially those branch managers. "
"when I was 20, manager Coles asked me to check in and go back to work. He said he would buy me a beer, and then he never invited me. They always try to squeeze their employees. I should have reported them, but I was just an idiot. "
"they`ve been doing this for years. Back in the 1980s, they demanded free labor for the sake of the company`s love. "
Well, although Coles claims to attach importance to employee labor, so many "revelations" are here, and the so-called statements are really untenable.
Labor is valuable and worth depends on money. It`s too much overtime, but you don`t pay for pizza? What for the love of the company, for the sake of friendship is disguised exploitation. I hope these retail fast food industry enterprises can pay attention to the labor of employees, otherwise, too much resentment, can not afford the enterprise itself.
From < news.com.au
