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Recruitment - Wage increase since April 2017 - Warehouse

Vicky Scull

Hi All,

I'm doing a piece of work around recruitment for Warehouse Operatives within the logistics sector.

It appears that it is getting more difficult to attract and retain Warehouse Operatives, and I'm curious to know if other companies are also having the same challenges.

I have carried out benchmarking and can see that we are in the middle with local competitors, but I'm interested to know if other companies have had to put up their rates since April 2017 to attract candidates to compete and if you have lost Operatives to local competitors due to hourly rate.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Vicky

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  • HI Vicky
    We have a warehouse in Manchester for all distribution in UK and it is so difficult to recruit we actually have open positions at the moment that we can't fill and are using temp workers to get us through to the New Year. The last temp we took on we ended up keeping him, but its rare that happens. I think we offer good T & C's we pay well above the living wage, have a quarterly bonus scheme based on KPI's which has always been paid out in full, higher ER pension contributions, good holidays, training opportunities and NVQ's. The problem we face is that in the area we are based there are a lot of other Companies big name Companies and that it was the problem. Candidates lean towards the big brands rather than a smaller one they might not have heard of, I also think the recruitment agencies favour the bigger companies so we are left with a poorer pool to pick from
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  • HI Vicky
    We have a warehouse in Manchester for all distribution in UK and it is so difficult to recruit we actually have open positions at the moment that we can't fill and are using temp workers to get us through to the New Year. The last temp we took on we ended up keeping him, but its rare that happens. I think we offer good T & C's we pay well above the living wage, have a quarterly bonus scheme based on KPI's which has always been paid out in full, higher ER pension contributions, good holidays, training opportunities and NVQ's. The problem we face is that in the area we are based there are a lot of other Companies big name Companies and that it was the problem. Candidates lean towards the big brands rather than a smaller one they might not have heard of, I also think the recruitment agencies favour the bigger companies so we are left with a poorer pool to pick from
    T
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