• Privacy policy
  • T&C’s
  • About Us
    • FAQ
    • Meet the Team
  • Contact us
TLE ONLINE SHOP!
  • TLE
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Opinion
  • Elevenses
  • Entertainment
    • All Entertainment
    • Film
    • Lifestyle
      • Horoscopes
    • Lottery Results
      • Lotto
      • Thunderball
      • Set For Life
      • EuroMillions
  • Food
    • All Food
    • Recipes
  • Property
  • Travel
  • Tech/Auto
  • JOBS
No Result
View All Result
The London Economic
SUPPORT THE LONDON ECONOMIC
NEWSLETTER
  • TLE
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Opinion
  • Elevenses
  • Entertainment
    • All Entertainment
    • Film
    • Lifestyle
      • Horoscopes
    • Lottery Results
      • Lotto
      • Thunderball
      • Set For Life
      • EuroMillions
  • Food
    • All Food
    • Recipes
  • Property
  • Travel
  • Tech/Auto
  • JOBS
No Result
View All Result
The London Economic
No Result
View All Result
Home Business and Economics Business

Fury as Ocado delivery drivers pay is reported and it’s not much

"The epitome of greed!" wrote MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2021-08-23 15:03
in Business
Credit;PA

Credit;PA

FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmailWhatsapp

Ocado delivery drivers are being paid as little as £5 an hour,according to an Observer article.

The newspaper looked through staff members’ payslips and calculated that they were earning the paltry figure despite conducting essential work during the Covid lockdown.

Drivers had previously been guaranteed an hourly wage of £14. However, after the company brought in a new delivery partner, Ryde, in June, their income was cut.

Ocado and Ryde strongly refute these allegations.

Pay slashed

The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB), which represents the drivers, told the Observer that they will be writing an open letter to Ocado calling on them to take responsibility for the workers.

“These drivers are key workers who risked their lives during the pandemic delivering vital supplies for Ocado but are now seeing their pay slashed by a company that has seen profits skyrocket,” said Alex Marshall, the union’s president.

“They should be treated as the heroes they are. Ocado needs to take responsibility and bring these workers in-house.”

RelatedPosts

Number of days UK CEO works to earn frontline workers’ salary is shocking

HSBC rebuffs break-up calls and pledges to boost dividends as profit surprise propels FTSE 100 higher

Brexitland trends as Brit wine wholesaler quits UK and video about damage to chemical industry goes viral

Spaceman Bezos feeling the pinch? Amazon increase cost of Prime membership and people are not impressed

Ocado reactions

A lot of people on social media were horrified at the news, with MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi describing it as “the epitome of greed”.

1.

Hey ⁦@Ocado⁩ What gives?Ocado drivers ‘paid less than £5 an hour’ | Ocado | The Guardian https://t.co/KnKYCkH62j

— Caroline Hirons (@CarolineHirons) August 21, 2021

2.

Bloodsuckers: Ocado drivers ‘paid less than £5 an hour’, company makes record profits, CEO collected paypacket of £58.7m, all from blood, sweat and tears of workers and their families.
Prosecute the company and execs for not paying the minimum wage.https://t.co/kg8PS2RNXF

— Prem Sikka (@premnsikka) August 22, 2021

3.

The epitome of greed!

Not giving workers a deserved decent wage, grinding them into the ground, whereby they can’t even take their kids on holiday or afford to make ends meet.

Strong action is needed against such unscrupulous employers.https://t.co/iejI0tWGoP

— Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP (@TanDhesi) August 21, 2021

4.

Hello @Ocado.
Drivers working for you are stating that they’re being paid less than the legal minimum wage.
I don’t find that acceptable. Do you?https://t.co/VJlL3TDCUa

— SideshowMatt ???️? #GTTO #WearAMask ? (@Sideshow_Matt) August 22, 2021

5.

“I’m making on average £50 on a 10-hour shift. And we pay for our own cars, tax, fuel and insurance out of that. It works out less than £5 an hour. Ocado is treating us like dirt.” Important story by @_tomwall https://t.co/O9nXb4uCyh

— Aditya Chakrabortty (@chakrabortty) August 22, 2021

6.

?? IWGB vs OCADO ??

8am today: The @IWGBunion President has written to @ocado to invite them to negotiations.

Now it’s time to get #ShameOnOcado going so they know we have the public’s support! pic.twitter.com/joKZDcMq0w

— IWGB Couriers (@IWGB_CLB) August 23, 2021

7.

.@Ocado I’ve used your service for years. your drivers worked all through lockdown, helped me and presumably hundreds of thousands of other people out when we needed it. you gotta pay what’s right. but you won’t. so I guess no more ocado.

— PyrionFlax (@PyrionFlax) August 22, 2021

8.

This…while boss gets paid £59 MILLION in one year (2019) and Ocado is worth more than ever… is why I will no longer shop at ⁦@Ocado⁩ and why I will urge others not to… totally immoral #ocado https://t.co/Yw8XX998JG

— Abigail Grace (@aagrace) August 22, 2021

“Significantly above the living wage”

A spokesperson from Ocado said: “All Ocado.com deliveries are made by Ocado employees, who receive significantly above the living wage. Overall, 99 per cent of all our drivers are employed by Ocado Group and we are looking for more full-time drivers for those people seeking direct employment.

“For Zoom, Ocado’s immediacy service currently operating in West London, a small proportion of deliveries are made by third-party delivery partners. Drivers who accept and fulfil orders for these partners receive above the living wage on a pro rata basis.

“It would be unacceptable to Ocado for any drivers to be paid below the living wage. We are committed to working closely with suppliers to ensure our model delivers great outcomes for everyone involved, including everyone delivering orders to Zoom customers.”

A spokesperson from Ryde said:

“As a “rider-first” last-mile delivery business, we put the welfare of our self-employed contractors at the heart of everything that we do.

“We aim to pay 20 per cent above the market average, well ahead of both minimum wage and the London living wage and over 90 per cent of Ryde drivers earn above the London living wage. Driver pay does vary depending on the acceptance and fulfillment of jobs and the average driver pay for Ryde users is currently £12 p/h.

“We are concerned by recent media reports and are investigating the specific instances, although from an initial assessment of driver data we strongly refute that drivers are being paid below minimum wage for their work with Ryde.”

Related: UK lorry driver shortage could be plugged by prisoners on day release

Subscribe to our Newsletter

View our  Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions

Trending on TLE

  • All
  • trending
Abdollah

‘Rescue us’: Afghan teacher begs UK to help him escape Taliban

CHOMSKY: “If Corbyn had been elected, Britain would be pursuing a much more sane course”

What If We Got Rid Of Prisons?

More from TLE

Inside Boris and Carrie’s London townhouse – on sale for a whopping £1.6m

Police set to arrest this 104-year-old woman who’s ‘never been on the wrong side of the law’

MPs back immigration reforms that will make it harder to protect children fleeing violence and war

How To Make The Perfect… Pulled Turkey Lettuce Cups

Free Fire: Film Review

Flashback: To when Lord Digby Jones said Germany would be queuing up for tariff-free deal with UK

Tory MP arrested on suspicion of rape

Salon goes viral after binning gossip magazines following Caroline Flack’s death

Weather forecast, alerts and UVB index for London, Tuesday 27 October 2020

Areas blighted by Japanese knotweed being mapped to provide heatmap of infestations across UK

JOBS

FIND MORE JOBS

About Us

TheLondonEconomic.com – Open, accessible and accountable news, sport, culture and lifestyle.

Read more

© 2019 thelondoneconomic.com - TLE, International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2BN. All Rights Reserved.




No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Entertainment
  • Lifestyle
  • Food
  • Travel
  • JOBS
  • More…
    • Elevenses
    • Opinion
    • Property
    • Tech & Auto
  • About Us
    • Meet the Team
    • Privacy policy
  • Contact us

© 2019 thelondoneconomic.com - TLE, International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2BN. All Rights Reserved.