Jumbo: 2% increase in salaries and Sundays where competitors operate

By George Lampiris

To alleviate the noise created in the previous days, announcing increases of 2%, Jumbo seeks with an internal letter to its staff. This letter states that in addition to 2% of the state will be given an extraordinary remuneration of 2% per month to staff, effective from 1 January 2022.

It will be recalled that in an announcement, the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry spoke of a “work galley and impunity” in the company, citing the 26 pages of the recently ratified internal regulations. The company had received strong criticism in the past, since last year during the lockdown it had asked when the measures are lifted, to allow 7 companies to operate for 7 days. In the past, it was also announced in the company’s stores in Preveza and Katerini that the company would open its stores, citing the parameter of the local competition that operated the stores on that day.

What Apostolos Vakakis mentions in the letter

In particular, Apostolos Vakakis in the letter he signs informs the company staff that “in the context of the announced intention to increase the national statutory minimum wage by 2%, Jumbo announces that in addition to 2% of the State, will be given as Extraordinary remuneration of additional 2% per month to its staff and with effect from 01.01.2022 “. It also notes that “if in the year 2022 the legislated minimum wage increases (for the second time) by a total of more than 4%, Jumbo will pay, as an extraordinary benefit, the difference of this increase to its employees retroactively from 01.01.2022 “.

“Jumbo would like to express its gratitude to all the employees for the love, dedication and valuable support you have shown. Thanks to you our business is responding to the great challenges and difficulties of the times, including the pandemic and the appreciation, “in the best possible way and continues to serve its mission, ie the best possible service to its customers at the most competitive prices. Employees are the face of our business and give their best every day even in the current, unfavorable conditions.” , it is noted, among other things, in the letter of Mr. Vakakis, which closes with the commitment that “Jumbo was, is and will continue to be on the side of its employees”, it is mentioned in the same announcement.

The announcement – denial of inappropriate working conditions

In fact, during yesterday, the listed company issued a statement, based on which it denied what came to light regarding last week’s complaints about the working conditions inside the company. In it he characteristically stated that: “Jumbo categorically denies all the allegations developed in various trade union leaflets regarding the alleged existence of illegal provisions in its Rules of Procedure and states that all its provisions are in line with the provisions of current labor law, something self-evident They would not have been approved by the State, especially as regards the alleged right of the company to cut ¼ the monthly salary of its employees, everyone knows that, apart from its outrageous claim, this is neither true nor could it ever be Jumbo Code of Values ​​and Principles “.

Open on Sundays only where the competition is open

In any case, the company states that in areas where its competition operates on Sundays, it will do something similar, however, clarifying that it has never asked for its stores to operate on Sundays in other cases.

“Finally, in an effort to put an end to the spirit of misinformation, Jumbo states emphatically that it has never requested that its stores be open on Sunday, December 26, as well as on Sundays in general, with the exception of the areas in which they operate. its competitors “, it is mentioned among others.