Sainsbury’s has announced a major restructuring of how its logistics operations work, affecting around 7,000 staff throughout the country. The retail giant said that the terms of their employment are covered by TUPE regulations and no one will have to move to a new place of work.
The plan is to stitch together a patchwork of different logistics contracts up and down the country into just three, each dealing with a different type of product. In the past the business has had different contracts for different products in different locations. Now the contracts with its three partners will be nationwide.
The business said this will mean that 3,000 staff who currently work for Sainsbury’s will transfer to one of the three companies it works with: DHL, Wincanton and GXO Logistics. An additional 4,000 who currently work for one of the three will move to another one of the partner businesses.
