interestrateripoff Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jul/28/sports-direct-staff-zero-hour-contracts Sports Direct's entire 20,000 part-time workforce are employed on zero-hour contracts at a time when 2,000 full-time staff are about to cash in bonuses of up to £100,000.The contracts, handed to 90% of the company's 23,000 employees, leave staff not knowing how many hours they will work from one week to the next, with no sick pay or holiday pay, and no guarantee of regular work. Bosses at Sports Direct, the UK's biggest sports retailer, were this month hailing their bonus policy for full-time staff as that of a model employer. The Guardian has also discovered that the bonus scheme rules give managers the power to exclude a member of staff if they are considered an "unsatisfactory performer", although they do not precisely define this term and it could be subject to abuse, according to employment lawyers. .... Politicians have been campaigning to ban the contracts and have called on Mike Ashley, the billionaire owner of Sports Direct, to consider introducing part-time contracts with guaranteed hours. You don't get rich by giving people holidays/sickpay what sort of socialist nonesense is that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gardener Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Unbelievable. That's the last time I buy a thing from them. *******. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19 year mortgage 8itch Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 Unbelievable. That's the last time I buy a thing from them. *******. +0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Knimbies who say No Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 With the advent of social media, why don't these workers, armed with this information, decide en masse and at short notice to go on strike until they get a better contract? They can't recruit replacements all that quickly. Not everyone would do it, fair enough, but it wouldn't take a great fraction, if these places are run as lean as can be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 So these are jobs that require tax credits and housing benefits presumably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnionTerror Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 So these are jobs that require tax credits and housing benefits presumably. AFAIK, (depending on your circumstances), you need to work 30 hours a week, and be over 25 to enable to claim tax credits...I very much suspect that a lot of part-time workers are young students... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imminent_plunge Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 That would explain why the last person to serve me at Sports Direct was chewing gum and didn't appear to give a flying fluck. Why should she have done? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keef Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 That would explain why the last person to serve me at Sports Direct was chewing gum and didn't appear to give a flying fluck. Why should she have done? To impress management & secure a full-time position, perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byron78 Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 It's like an IDS wet dream. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderpup Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 The contracts, handed to 90% of the company's 23,000 employees, leave staff not knowing how many hours they will work from one week to the next, with no sick pay or holiday pay, and no guarantee of regular work. I wonder how many of these people will qualify for a Help to buy mortgage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lid Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 To impress management & secure a full-time position, perhaps? Would you want to work for a company that treats 90% of its workforce like *****s though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybong Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 (edited) By all accounts his footie team often play like they're on the same contract. Edited July 29, 2013 by billybong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingatthepyramid Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 This story had been doing my head in Most of the staff in the branch i visit (SE) are beautiful Spanish girls but i guessed they were on a lot less than 20k and no way would they be hanging around if they got 75K+ bonus So this is managers and office bods, HR and the like i guess same as it ever was Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Lorne Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 So these are jobs that require tax credits and housing benefits presumably. ...yeah...we the tax payers are the clowns subsidising this ...don't blame anyone else.... it is you....you are allowing this to happen ...what are you going to do about it ...?....remember the ballot box is a long way off...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Lorne Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 By all accounts his footie team often play like they're on the same contract. ..in many parts of the world it's called the "Live to Midnight Syndrome"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjw Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 Unbelievable. That's the last time I buy a thing from them. *******. -100 - there's a market place for labour out there, and I appreciate being able to buy cheap things. Put staff on good contracts and double the prices - and you will never see my custom again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 So these are jobs that require tax credits and housing benefits presumably. So what you are saying that in reality they are public sector employees.....add it to the deficit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Knimbies who say No Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 -100 - there's a market place for labour out there, and I appreciate being able to buy cheap things. Put staff on good contracts and double the prices - and you will never see my custom again. Yeah, but if you are forced to top up these workers earnings via in work benefits, it's not quite as straightforward as you think is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19 year mortgage 8itch Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 -100 - there's a market place for labour out there, and I appreciate being able to buy cheap things. Put staff on good contracts and double the prices - and you will never see my custom again. Well we won't be bumping into you at John Lewis then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted July 29, 2013 Author Share Posted July 29, 2013 -100 - there's a market place for labour out there, and I appreciate being able to buy cheap things. Put staff on good contracts and double the prices - and you will never see my custom again. So you'd be quite happy to work a zero hour week then? Or is that just for the proles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nationalist Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 I did once overhear a convo between two managers at an SD store. They were discussing staffing levels and micromanaging it to the minute, planning to send one employee home in ten minutes and another sixty minutes after that. I think the easy way to fix this is to legislate that NMW is doubled for "overtime" - ie, time not in contract or late notice time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 I did once overhear a convo between two managers at an SD store. They were discussing staffing levels and micromanaging it to the minute, planning to send one employee home in ten minutes and another sixty minutes after that. I think the easy way to fix this is to legislate that NMW is doubled for "overtime" - ie, time not in contract or late notice time. Sounds like very bad running of a business to me, where the staff pick up all the risk. Do Sports Direct refuse to pay for sports gear that doesn't sell, or switch off the lights during quiet periods? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easy2012 Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 Sounds like very bad running of a business to me, where the staff pick up all the risk. Do Sports Direct refuse to pay for sports gear that doesn't sell, or switch off the lights during quiet periods? I am not a fan of Mike or SD but it is a FTSE 100 company and of course it is not badly run. All the other like JJB etc have all gone bust. SD Zero is unsecured but is better than no job. Frontline accounts at studentrooms are some happy, some don't and that is also store (manager) dependent. If anyone walking in expect this to be a civil service job or John Lewis Job, then they will obviously be very disappointed. http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1984103&page=4&page=4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easy2012 Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 (edited) I did once overhear a convo between two managers at an SD store. They were discussing staffing levels and micromanaging it to the minute, planning to send one employee home in ten minutes and another sixty minutes after that. I think the easy way to fix this is to legislate that NMW is doubled for "overtime" - ie, time not in contract or late notice time. Is the current employment legislation not complex enough already ? Edited July 29, 2013 by easy2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AThirdWay Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 Put staff on good contracts and double the prices - and you will never see my custom again. If you think that putting staff on good contracts will double prices, you have little grasp of business costs! Stick to hiding under your bridge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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