Tesco looks for Poles to fill posts
11 Grudzień 2007
The UK's biggest supermarket group is recruiting staff from Poland to work in Norwich because no one here wants the jobs.
Tesco
bosses said up to 32 staff or up to five per cent of the 650 staff
working at the store in Blue Boar Lane in Sprowston were Polish and at
least some of them had been recruited directly from Poland.
A Tesco spokesman said they could not find the right staff locally and so had held a recruitment fair in Poland.
He
said: “Yes we recruited some of them from Poland. The proportion is
very tiny but if 100pc of our staff were Polish we would be doing
nothing wrong. We had vacancies and so now we have filled them.
“We
are not denying local people work by giving immigrants a job; it's
completely the other way round. We are looking overseas for the simple
reason that we can't recruit locally. It's an indication of the labour
market rather than anything else.
“The Polish work very hard and Tesco only recruit from overseas if we cannot get the right staff to work in our stores.
“All staff are employed on exactly the same terms and conditions and enjoy the same rates of pay.
“In
certain cases they are coming from other countries and so we will try
and find them accommodation, but we don't pay for that.
“We will of course continue to recruit locally wherever possible.”
Two years ago Tesco revealed
it was employing 140 truck
drivers from Poland to work
in the UK to tackle a shortage
of drivers.
Yesterday,
think-tank Migrationwatch launched an attack on migrant workers saying
they were sending home £10m a day while the benefit they brought the
economy was just 4p a week.
But David Dukes, economic
development manager at Norfolk County Council, said: “There are clearly
not enough staff for the number of people that want to shop here.
“There
is a labour shortage in Norwich and this is reflecting a national trend
that we are seeing in a number of sectors, so companies like Tesco will
look for increasingly innovative solutions to tackle it. Migrant
workers have proven themselves to be of a benefit to a number of
sectors in Norfolk.”
Sophie Hallett, marketing manager at Castle
Mall, said she was not aware of retailers there having to fly to Poland
to find staff while Sainsbury's and Morrisons both denied they were
having any difficulties finding local staff.
But Richard Dodd,
spokesman for the British Retail Consortium, said: “We just don't have
enough people looking for work in the retail sector.
“In areas
of high employment it's not surprising to hear retailers are turning to
Poland. Many may indeed have to recruit from other Eastern European
countries too.”
Tesco also owns 107 stores in Poland and employs more than 20,000 people there.
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