Major supermarket offering jobs to workers after Sainsbury's announces plans to axe 3,000 staff
Major supermarket offering jobs to workers after Sainsbury's announces plans to axe 3,000 staff
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Iceland has encouraged Sainsbury’s workers to apply for jobs at its stores after the supermarket confirmed it was axing 3,000 roles. Sainsbury’s confirmed the news last week, which will affect about 2% of its 148,000 workforce. The job cuts will come from the supermarket closing down all its 61 in-store cafes, and removing its pizza and hot food counters from stores. Sainsbury’s is also axing 20% of senior management workers over the coming months.
In a Facebook post, Iceland encouraged anyone affected to apply for a job. The supermarket said: “We're so sorry to hear about this. If you or anyone you know has been affected, feel free to check out our careers page. We have lots of great opportunities here at Iceland & The Food Warehouse.”.
Simon Roberts, Sainsbury’s chief executive, said the job cuts were necessary to “continue to drive forward” the business - and warned retailers are facing a “particularly challenging cost environment“. It comes after Sainsbury’s warned that tax increases from the October Budget would hit it with an extra £140million in costs.
He said: “As we accelerate into year two and beyond of our strategy, we are facing into a particularly challenging cost environment which means we have had to make tough choices about where we can afford to invest and where we need to do things differently to make our business more efficient and effective.
“The decisions we are announcing today are essential to ensure we continue to drive forward our momentum but have also meant some difficult choices impacting our dedicated colleagues in a number of parts of our business. We’ll be doing everything we can to support anyone impacted by today’s announcements.”.
