Tesco initiates scheme to enable school-leavers to reach for the top
February 8, 2010
The school-leaver stacking supermarket shelves has come to epitomise the dead-end, low-paid, low-skilled job that, according to critics, is taking the place of skilled manufacturing jobs in the British economy.
It is true that the big supermarkets are an increasingly important part of Britain’s job market. Last year, the Big Four created an estimated 29,000 jobs as unemployment rose elsewhere.
But they are taking steps to shed the shelf-stacking stigma. Today Tesco — Britain’s biggest private employer — is starting a management scheme for 16-year-olds that is thought to be the first of its kind.
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