In response, long-standing casual supermarket employees say their hours have been cut to make way for new employees while some new casuals have said they are not getting the same shifts they were earlier in the year.Josh Cullinan, secretary of the activist Retail and Fast Food Workers Union, said some of his members were long-term casuals at supermarkets and had seen sharp reductions in their hours.
He said there were several reasons why workers could be receiving fewer shifts: stores opening fewer hours, working fewer staff harder or they had more staff but had reverted to regular demand. Its national secretary, Gerard Dwyer, said he could not see a pattern to the complaints, which varied as "managers work to manage rapid fluctuations in demand from shoppers".
"As trading patterns continue to normalise, we'll have fewer hours to offer than we did a couple of months ago," the Woolworths spokesman said.He said some casual team members were starting to return to their main employers as COVID-19 restrictions started to lift.Hatch, a student jobs platform that pivoted to finding roles for stood-down workers two months ago, has noted a drop in demand after placing 600 employees.
woolworths igaAustralia have done a very good job during coronavirusaustralia in the face of an unpredictable huge temporary spike in demand. Casuals who were recruited worked out for themselves that increased demand wouldn't continue ad infinitum. auspol
Farkk really would never had thought this. 😂
Unfortunately this was entirely predictable.
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