Tesco Ireland offers a number of voluntary redundancies as part of restructuring process
The company has decided that a number of roles in its stores needed to change to ensure they have more staff on the shop floor to improve customer service in general
Print25 September 2014
Tesco Ireland has confirmed that it is in discussions with departmental managers about a number of possible voluntary redundancies or a number of redeployments to other roles as part of a restructuring process.
A spokesperson for the company said that there were conversations ongoing with line or middle managers who were being offered the option to go from full time to part time employment with the company.
Following a recent review, the company decided that a number of roles in its stores needed to change to ensure they have more staff on the shop floor to improve customer service in general.
According to the spokesperson: “With over 2.5 million customer transactions per week and 15,000 employees, we keep the structures of our business under constant review to ensure that we offer the best possible service to customers. Following a recent review, a small number of roles in our stores are changing in order to ensure that we have more colleagues on the shop floor helping customers.”
“We are in early stage discussions with some of our departmental managers in stores to see if any wish to be redeployed to other roles or whether any would wish to apply for voluntary redundancy. At this early stage, we can’t speculate on final outcomes.”
Gerry Light, assistant general secretary of retail union Mandate, said that the company had not contacted the union about these developments at Tesco but has said that he has now written to the retailer seeking details of its plans for its workforce going forward.
Earlier this week, it was revealed that Tesco plc had overstated its group profits for the six months to 23 August 2014 by an estimated £250m.
In a statement, Tesco plc said this was principally due to the accelerated recognition of commercial income and delayed accrual of costs. Tesco’s board has asked Deloitte to undertake an independent and comprehensive review of these issues, working closely with Freshfields, the group’s external legal advisers. The group has said it will provide a further update at its interim results, which will now be announced on 23 October 2014.
The company has said that the proposed redundancies in the Irish market are completely unrelated to this issue.
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