M&S boss denies impossible food check deadline in dismissal case

The manager of a Marks & Spencer food store has denied claims by a former employee that staff were being given impossible deadlines by which to check food expiry dates.

Killarney store manager Paul Daly said checking expiry dates on food was “not rocket science” — staff were trained to look at the product and check the date, and most staff managed to check their allocated number of fresh and chilled food sections in the two-hour time frame.

The two-hour time frame was not strict, “the core requirement” was to check items, the manager also said.