Esco Due to staff pressure in British supermarkets, truck drivers who join the company before the end of September will provide a £1,000 franchise bonus.
This payment is applicable to newcomers who joined from July 14th to September 30th, appearing in various advertisements Heavy truck The driver role on the food retailer’s website.
Potential candidates were told that the position offered the opportunity to become “an ambassador on our roads”, “you will play an important role for our customers and communities, representing Tesco on the highways and roads in the UK.”
The limited-time offer was launched last week after the supermarket had to assure customers that there was no need to panic buying after seeing pictures of half-empty shelves and reports of temporary shortages.
This situation was blamed on a “perfect storm” of exacerbating factors, including self-isolated workers and previous staff shortages.
Last week British Retailers Association The (BRC) warned that a shortage of employees due to a large number of workers self-isolating after being pinged by the NHS Covid-19 app has “put increasing pressure on retailers’ ability to maintain business hours and maintain shelf inventory”.
Factories, bakeries, and meat processing plants have also seen the impact of the so-called “plague”.
This government Since then, the company has taken emergency measures, saying that these measures will protect the food supply and allow thousands of workers to avoid self-isolation if they are identified as contacts of coronavirus cases.
Key workplaces in the food supply chain are prioritizing targeted daily testing, which will allow qualified workers identified as Covid contacts to continue working when they test negative.
at the same time, Road Transport Association (RHA) has previously stated that after about 30,000 HGV driving tests were not conducted due to the coronavirus pandemic last year, it believes that there is a shortage of about 60,000 transport drivers in the UK.
Transport workers attribute the shortage to the fact that a large portion of their drivers are foreigners returning from European countries to the European Union. In addition, truck drivers are not included in the government’s skilled labor list, and new arrivals need immigration paperwork.
Tesco has previously assured shoppers that it has enough food, and all grocery stores urge customers to shop as usual.
