Maybe He Should Work A Lidl Less

[wolf63]

Unusual story from Barcelona - New Zealand newspaper

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11937961

[Hopkirk]

Sounds like he wasn't Cooperative with the company rules.

[aelmpvw]

e asda ava case for unfair dismissal

[cassa333]

And here lays a problem.

How many people have so much work piled onto them that they can't do it all in the time allocated? How many people have to take work home 'just to finish that report' or get the figures to tally etc?

The 'unpaid overtime' rule is endemic and often if you don't do it it is frowned upon.

Lucky is the worker who can clock on and off with everything done and not worry.

[Hopkirk]

He was often alone in the shop. That's not a Safeway of working.

[gulliver1]

Should have to Wait for Rose to help him.

[Tilly2]

What a despicable way to treat someone who has worked over and beyond the call of duty. They should have promoted him, not fired him.

[ummmm]

Or employed enough people to get the job done in opening hours!

[EDDIE51]

Working alone is a health and safety issue, as he could get injured and not have anyone to help. That alone would be grounds for dismissal.

[Tilly2]

I accept that, Eddie but it's still a shoddy way to treat him.

[ummmm]

And do you know the health and safety laws/rules in Barcelona?

When I've been to various countries they kinda seem to be a bit lacking!

[EDDIE51]

I would assume he has had several warnings before he was sacked.
Not sure about NZ but in the UK he would have had 4 warnings up to a final written warning before dismissal. The only thing he did that I can see as justifying dismissal is the breach of health and safety rules due to working alone.

[EDDIE51]

Sorry it was a New Zealand paper. But Spain will have the EU health and safety working rules which are the same ones we follow
( at the moment)

[Zacs-Master]

He’s in Barcelona Eddie, not NZ. But I agree with you on the warnings. I suspect he’d have been sacked for asking for help if he was not meeting targets. Rock / hard place.

[Tilly2]

It would be interesting to know how his successor copes with the demands of the role.

[ummmm]

I was in Malta last year where a hotel was being refurbed. A plasterer was standing on a balcony wall 4 floors up plastering the ceiling of it while someone held on to his t-shirt.

Those type of health and safety laws?

[THECORBYLOON]

Are Lidl managers normally expected to stack shelves? If no, is he not masking problems with others not properly doing their own jobs?

If he is, he is not capable of doing that and his other duties within his normal hours meaning his capability is an issue.

[-Talbot-]

Tilly2
It would be interesting to know how his successor copes with the demands of the role.


I can't wait to find out.

[Tilly2]

Well, I'd be interested.

[Peter Pedant]

// e asda ava case for unfair dismissal //

its Barrrthelona - so surely that should be

" y asda ava case for unfair..... " - oops - - - - -athda and cathe

I remain for ever yours...A Pedant - nice on topic comment by the way