Tesco Lotus ready to hire 10,000 more workers if hourly employment allowed

[agood1963]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

Tesco Lotus aims to hire another 10,000 temporary workers if the Ministry of Labour would pass an hourly employment law,

A scam for false unemployment figures the same happens in the UK zero hours contracts they call it .

[Bender Rodriguez]

great step to new slavery

[Pilotman]

No doubt they will be as untrained and useless as the present lot.  Numbers do not make up for poor or none existent  customer service. 

[khunjeff]

1 hour ago, agood1963 said:

A scam for false unemployment figures the same happens in the UK zero hours contracts they call it .

Since Thailand has been reporting an unemployment rate of less than 1% for about ten years now, they hardly need any new statistical tricks to keep the figure down. As it is, anyone working one hour a week, even helping on the farm or selling something at the market or driving a motorbike taxi, is considered employed.

[RichardColeman]

Sounds like Thailand is entering the zero hours contract business

[Pedrogaz]

I visit Tesco often. They have a surplus of people and don't need any more. The problem is them standing around in groups talking to each other. If you wish to buy an electrical item you have a gaggle of 'salespeople' who are totally untrained and know little to nothing about the products they sell, they are only there to show you a more expensive item. The staff stacking the shelves are among the rudest assistant I have ever seen in my life, pushing the customers out of the way en route to their 'job' and inventory control is a disaster. 

[Knocker33]

Wonder if this means Tesco are not selling out to the monopoly 

[fvw53]

13 hours ago, lujanit said:

This is just a ploy so CP can move all their employees in Tesco to a hourly rate thereby negating the need for holiday, sick pay etc.

 

Greed at its most blatant.  CP care nothing for their employees, all that counts is the bottom line.

Is the sale transaction to CP already completed, I thought it still had to be approved by shareholder meeting?

[Hi Tea]

On 8/24/2020 at 6:16 PM, Andrew65 said:

In the UK, a zero hours contract means that one can have no work & no pay and be classified as being fully employed. Not sure what's so advantageous for the employee?

This isn't the UK so why keep going on about it?

[Hi Tea]

On 8/24/2020 at 6:28 PM, BritManToo said:

If Tesco can't afford 300bht for a day's pay, they shouldn't be in business.

Tesco didn't say, or even hint, that they couldn't afford it.

Edited August 25, 2020 by Hi Tea

[Don Mega]

10 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Tesco/BigC/7-11 et al generally pay 300bht/shift.

You can argue about the length of the shift 10hrs/12hrs/14hrs, but does it really matter?

Lets be generous and call it 30bt/hr ..... but now you don't get 300bht for your shift, because they don't need to pay a full shift.

Anything over 8 hours has to be paid at penalty rates.

[Hi Tea]

13 hours ago, lujanit said:

This is just a ploy so CP can move all their employees in Tesco to a hourly rate thereby negating the need for holiday, sick pay etc.

Greed at its most blatant.  CP care nothing for their employees, all that counts is the bottom line.

"...negating the need for holiday, sick pay etc".

How did you find out what the conditions are for hourly-rate work that has yet to be allowed by law?  Have they been published somewhere?

 

What is "blatantly greedy" about taking on 10,000 new workers and where is the indication that CP (whose purchase offer for TL has not been approved yet) care nothing about their employees?

Edited August 25, 2020 by Hi Tea

[Hi Tea]

12 hours ago, pegman said:

This scam is to drop a bunch of employees from full time, with benefits, to part time without benefits.

So where is it that the new working conditions have been published for a labour category that does not yet exist under law?

[Hi Tea]

10 hours ago, BritManToo said:

13 hours ago, Acrylic said:

How do you know they pay 300 baht for 14 works ? Is there mention somewhere ? thank you. 

Tesco/BigC/7-11 et al generally pay 300bht/shift.

Are you claiming that Tesco Lotus, Big C and CP/7-11 all pay their employees less than the legal minimum wage?

Edited August 25, 2020 by Hi Tea

[Hi Tea]

9 hours ago, agood1963 said:

A scam for false unemployment figures the same happens in the UK zero hours contracts they call it .

How is that then, as it hasn't been approved but was proposed by Tesco Lotus, not the government?  How would false unemployment figures benefit Tesco, the company that is making this proposal?

Edited August 25, 2020 by Hi Tea

[Don Mega]

14 hours ago, lujanit said:

This is just a ploy so CP can move all their employees in Tesco to a hourly rate thereby negating the need for holiday, sick pay etc.

 

Greed at its most blatant.  CP care nothing for their employees, all that counts is the bottom line.

I'd go as far as saying are fair chunk of staff that work at 7-11 (CP don't own Tesco) are labour hire employee's, not direct hire, 7/11 would not be paying holiday or sick leave to them.

 

[pineapple01]

Just crossed me mind. By the time a ferangs on a pension have paid for their Hoss Box apartment in Patts they are worse off for disposable fun coin than a Thai on full time min wage.