Tesco seeking to cut pay and conditions for close to 1,000 Irish staff

Close to 1,000 of Tesco’s Irish employees are to be hit with significant pay cuts if the retailer succeeds in moving some of its longest-serving staff to different contracts.

Tesco Ireland yesterday confirmed it was seeking to cut pay and conditions for about 6% of its 14,500 employees.

The company met staff on Tuesday and informed them of its plan to move hundreds of workers on contracts signed prior to 1996 onto ‘modern’ contracts agreed with unions in 2006.