Polish workers living in disused factory
11 Grudzień 2007
Jobseekers wanting to work at a city Tesco store have reacted angrily
at claims by the supermarket it was forced to recruit from Poland
because it could not fill the positions locally.
As previously
reported by the Evening News, bosses from the Blue Boar Lane branch in
Sprowston staged a recruitment fair in Poland after being unable to
find staff in the city and five per cent of the 650 staff at the store
are now Polish.
But people desperately looking for jobs in the
city have contacted us claiming that they had applied to Tesco for
work, only to be told there were no vacancies available.
Walter
Green, of Plantsman Close in Norwich, said he went to the customer
service desk at the Blue Boar Lane store several times last year and
was told there were no jobs.
The 70-year-old, a trained
carpenter who lives with his wife Elizabeth, 68, said: “I applied for
any job going but as they said there were no jobs I never got as far as
filling in an application form.
“I wanted some extra money to help tide me and my wife over because the pension here is not exactly great.
“I was just looking for a part-time job and I would have been prepared to do anything. I would have helped stack shelves.”
Stephen
Ling, 57, of St Mildreds Road, West Earlham, filled in an application
in autumn last year to work in any position in the store.
“They replied saying they had no vacancies to suit me,” he said.
Mr Ling is a trained butcher and has a temporary job on a chicken farm which is about to come to an end.
“I
feel a bit peeved. I've got nothing against the Polish, but it's the
fact the management said the local people don't want the jobs when we
do,” he said.
Elaine Berks, of Gertrude Road, Norwich, said:
“My son and I have both tried to get employment with the Blue Boar Lane
branch and failed. What do they want - brain surgeons? It's rubbish
that they can't get suitable employees here.”
Antony Preston,
who lives off Aylsham Road in Norwich, said: “I have been phoning the
store and calling in and I don't think the Polish people did so why
aren't they taking me on? I am really angry.”
Tesco owns 107 stores in Poland and employs more than 20,000 people there.
The UK has seen increasing numbers of Polish migrant workers ever since the country entered the EU three years ago.
A
Tesco spokesman said: “Without exception we try to employ locally
first. That people were looking for work does not necessarily mean
Tesco was recruiting at the same time.
“It's great we've so much interest for work.
“For store jobs it's always a good idea to keep an eye out there first.”
The spokesman added: “We would be delighted to receive local interest in the future when positions become available.”
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