\nMorrisons is looking to recruit 3,500 new employees to help its current staff through the busy Christmas period.<\/p>\n
Expecting to see increased demand among shoppers with the upcoming World Cup as well as the festive season, the supermarket giant<\/a> will be offering 500 more jobs than it did during last year’s Christmas recruitment drive.<\/p>\n Available roles include customer assistants, home delivery drivers, machine operatives, warehouse operatives and production operatives.<\/p>\n The permanent and temporary positions, currently open via Morrisons dedicated jobs page<\/a> also offer all colleagues a 15% staff discount, alongside full training for the role.<\/p>\n For the latest grocery news directly into your inbox, “Ahead of the festive season, we are looking for 3,500 Christmas helpers to come and join our fast-moving and exciting team on a temporary or permanent basis,” Morrisons people director, Claire Grainger said.<\/p>\n “There are lots of great opportunities in our various stores and sites across the UK to help people develop new skills and make and deliver the items our customers love to enjoy when celebrating the festive season.\u201d<\/p>\n This comes as leading retailer<\/a> Tesco has launched a Christmas recruitment drive as it looks to employ 15,000 temporary workers paid at a rate<\/a>\u00a0of \u00a310.10ph, increasing to \u00a310.30ph from 13 November.<\/p>\n Waitrose and its parent company<\/a>, John Lewis are also set to recruit 10,000 temporary roles<\/a> across the UK, with 4,000 roles across its 331 Waitrose stores including supermarket assistants, night shift workers and customer delivery drivers, as well as an additional 4,000 roles spread across its supply chain as warehouse workers and drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Morrisons is looking to recruit 3,500 new employees to help its current staff through the busy Christmas period.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":45424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,3928],"tags":[1922,11416,1390,816,461,6437,83,948],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45425,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45420\/revisions\/45425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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