Our People

Diversity & disability

Tesco Ireland is an equal opportunities employer, hiring people of all races and religions, people with disabilities, and young and older people to work at our stores. In order to achieve this we know that we must provide for a variety of career paths and patterns of working, a good work-life balance and comprehensive employee benefits.

Case study: English classes for non-national staff

Tesco Ireland offers English classes for distribution employees who have a basic level of English and want to improve their grasp of the language. The classes are free and are taught by a tutor from the Sandford Language Institute. There has been extensive interest from our non-national employees in the course.

Family-friendly working

Where possible, we work with our people to accommodate more flexible forms of working. Working in Tesco's stores gives parents, students and other people a wide range of hours from which to choose. We have in place a wide range of family-friendly policies.

Rewards and benefits

We offer a highly competitive package of pay and benefits to all our staff. This includes staff discounts, share schemes, healthcare, staff bonus and pension scheme.

SAYE

To ensure we reward our employees for their loyalty, enthusiasm and commitment in making Tesco Ireland the largest and best retailer, we provide staff with an opportunity to share in our success by providing share options at a discounted rate. Save As You Earn is launched annually, offering staff the option to buy Tesco shares at a discounted rate. At the end of the savings contract, a guaranteed tax-free bonus is added to the savings. Staff can then choose to buy Tesco shares at a discount or take a lump sum. Over 4,000 Tesco Ireland staff participate in the share schemes.

Health & safety

Tesco is committed to having safe systems of work and providing a safe and healthy environment for our staff, our customers and our visitors. Our objectives are to ensure that as well as complying with the law on safety and health we will continue to strive for high standards that will safeguard our staff, customers and other visitors to our premises.