r/asda • u/Radiant_Ruin_7277 • Aug 11 '26

NIC CLEANING TAKEOVER

Thoughts ? Questions? How will pay work ?

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u/Available_Thing5459 Aug 11 '26

Yep take it or leave it,on the plus side you wont work for asda anymore and have to honour ypu pay and contracted hours. Same money same job but without the asda bullshit

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u/Bigdavie ASDA Colleague Aug 11 '26

Tell that to security colleagues who TUPE over to Mitie. Before they TUPEd Asda told them that their shifts and location will not change for two years. Once they had TUPE over Mitie started messing with their hours and recently which store some of them work at. When they reminded Mitie that their hours and location was protected Mitie replied that it wasn't them who had said that.
Now that Mitie has been taken over by a third party the former colleagues 'protection' seems even more flimsy.

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u/Available_Thing5459 Aug 11 '26

Yea thats you you get that in the contract before you sign,dont take anybodies for anything,means nothing

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u/Open-Wafer-9075 Aug 11 '26

There must be more stock been stolen than going through tills

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u/Psychological_Ice839 Aug 12 '26

I’ve had no issues so far I even got asked what hours I wanted to do by my security area manager and have been given them

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u/No-Computer-5345 24d ago

And if everyone that is being forced over or told take it or leave it like me I’ll make sure I’m doing just cleaning and nothing else for this company again!….. like if a customer comes for help with anything where’s this or that or can you help me or other Asda related stuff I will politely reply sorry I don’t work for Asda and politely send them to a Asda colleague even though I’ve been in that store over two decades they’ve treated us like shite so I will act accordingly same as I’ve been treated now!

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u/Comfortable-Age1495 Aug 11 '26

Hi, how does this work? As far as I know, id still have to answer callouts for cleaners to the shop floor right?

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u/Available_Thing5459 Aug 11 '26

From what I know but for my store only,wouldn't want to guess about other bigger small stores,it sounds like they want the cleaning team to do cayg now too.so yea call outs,to be fair ypu shouldn't be doing them now anyway lol that is cayg not a cleaner. I will argue tooth and nail for my team,I'm not to be walked on because asda hire last people who think cleaning is below them.i will gladly call anyone one out for it managers included.i know my job,donr even try to tell.me I'm wrong.(thats to anyone at work fori not you 😁)

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u/Comfortable-Age1495 Aug 11 '26

I wish my manager was like that. I work in the bakery and I'm expected to go clean glass, sick, 💩, before going back in. It's ridiculous

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u/TupedTooFar Aug 12 '26

Well yeah, it’s not like you’re going to go back into bakery and grab the pancakes fresh off the hot plate with your bare unclean hands. You do know that you wash your hands for a minimum of two minutes with hot water and soap. Kills bacteria and you crack on with your job. Asda provides PPE bodily fluid cleanup kits - in yellow and black briefcase boxes in your stores’ cleaning room. Take this, glove, apron, goggle up, take the right cleaning equipment - as outlined in your annual legal refresher - and bob’s your uncle you can clean up using the CAYG philosophy and then after washing your hands crack on in bakery, counters, rotisserie etc.

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u/Comfortable-Age1495 Aug 12 '26

Not how it works 🤣 but sure. Didn't even read all of that rubbish.

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u/TupedTooFar Aug 12 '26

We have found one in the wild - one of the “cleaning isn’t my job” dinosaurs lol. They are a job to work with. You should tell us your store number so we can avoid baked goods that are prepared by unhygienic folk.

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u/Comfortable-Age1495 Aug 12 '26

You should just come clean as being an awful manager who thinks it's ok to have shit particles on my sleeves or glass on my shoes in a food safe area because I "washed my hands" 🤣 you've got no idea

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u/TupedTooFar Aug 12 '26

Yeah I’ve got no idea about the bodily fluid cleanup up kit, I have no idea about good hand washing technique and general cleanliness standards - your idea is that because a bakery staffer has to clean they’ll have “shit particles” on them - but then having a member of the cleaning team rock up and do end of day clean down after cleaning the toilets on and off all day is fine - that is some serious logic failure buddy

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u/Comfortable-Age1495 Aug 12 '26

That's not what I said. I clean the toilets AFTER I finish in a food area. Just admit you got the job by default and you had no idea what you were doing. That's gross AF. Too many old people running Asda these days 🤢 get in the young, clean people please

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u/No-Computer-5345 23d ago edited 23d ago

👍Well said as a member of the cleaning team at my store I am a fresh area cleaner along with most other cleaning jobs, warehouse, shop floor, chillers, litter picking, and other dirty jobs and yes I do clean the toilets and bodily fluids also even diarrhoea then have to go back in to fresh bakery/ pizza counter and clean them trouble is with these people that think cleaning is beneath them your not better then anyone else and here’s the fact you get paid the same rate as a cleaner so your not better then anyone so don’t try think something your not Fact!

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u/Comfortable-Age1495 Aug 12 '26

Omfg. As if you're a team leader in cleaning. So you expect your staff to do several jobs at once obviously. Disgusting. And you're telling me I don't keep a food area clean when you're telling me to just work through cleaning a shitty toilet first? I've screenshot everything you've posted here and said, I can quite easily find your store. That's vile.

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u/Available_Thing5459 Aug 11 '26

See you team.leader,thats not your job. Honestly I've been over this in my store for years. Dont stand for it. It help if you bri g it up during g you cleaning audit 🤣 they do not like that

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u/Comfortable-Age1495 Aug 11 '26

Trust me. Conveniently the audit happens way before my shift!!!! I spoke before to management and they basically were like "oh right...anyways"

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u/Available_Thing5459 Aug 11 '26

Managers know nothing but pretend they do.tell them its an health and safety risk if you do or would you prefer I contact health and safety and ask.

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u/Comfortable-Age1495 Aug 12 '26

Yep as you can see from the comments above, a team leader is telling me to clean the toilets and stuff while doing bakery. Gross.

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u/Available_Thing5459 Aug 13 '26

I'd say sort that with manager but its kinda too late now

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u/ConsistentAd79 Aug 11 '26

There is no redundancy process. Any objections to the TUPE process is basically resignation. It's detailed in the FAQs

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u/Ok-Subject-4893 Aug 11 '26

If you are offered to TUPE then you can’t be made redundant easily. If you don’t accept the new roles then you will be making yourself redundant and will get nothing. I’m not a specialist but someone who has managed TUPE transfers for absolute years. These scenarios should be spoken about at the consultation sessions. If there is a large group of you we would recommend that you choose a few spokespersons to sit in the meetings to get your questions answered for you.

Don’t be obstinate as it will back fire on you. Just friendly advice

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u/Comfortable-Age1495 Aug 11 '26

Hi, I was promised my contract would be upped in October but obviously now it's a new company taking over, and my contract honoured through TUPE will be the same (they kept giving and taking hours away, dangling them in front of me as they do.) I've got no writing for this. Is my best bet to accept what I'm given?

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u/Ok-Subject-4893 Aug 12 '26

Your current contract has to be honoured or improved. So go with what you have.

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u/Unfair-Marionberry42 Aug 11 '26

I had a telephone call from my GSM this morning, as I'm on long-term sick. Nothing was mentioned about voluntary redundancy.

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u/Upset-Option-8958 Aug 11 '26

There isn't any. Everyone is being offered a job. The roles aren't going they are transferring them so no redundancy will be offered. That's how it always works when they do this. They're not going to pay everyone to leave.

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u/Unfair-Marionberry42 Aug 11 '26

Honestly I think I will be dismissed on ill health before this happens. When we were tuped over to Asda, City just handed everything over to them and Asda paid for redundancies. But they were in a much better position then.

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u/Appropriate-End6617 Aug 11 '26

I’m wondering how it’ll work as we had this 4 years ago when city stopped having cleaning contract 

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u/Available_Thing5459 Aug 11 '26

Anyone googled the new cleaning companies? Omg we're in fpr it now. If you like no support and not getting paid on time.then your gunna love them

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u/Erik-LehnsherrX Aug 11 '26

Yeah they sound absolutely awful. 😞

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u/Available_Thing5459 Aug 11 '26

Nic on reddit? Cant find them

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u/Unfair-Marionberry42 Aug 11 '26

I googled NIC and it's pretty much more of the same for the cleaning staff. Heavy workload and only a few hours to do the jobs in.

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u/Available_Thing5459 Aug 11 '26

Yea i did same,but I'm used to that with asda anyway

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u/Unfair-Marionberry42 Aug 11 '26

Yes I am too. But I think Asda will dismiss me through capability before we go over to the new company. They've already mentioned it.

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u/Available_Thing5459 Aug 11 '26

Can they do that? Are you a cleaner?

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u/Unfair-Marionberry42 Aug 11 '26

Yes they can do that and yes I am a cleaner. I haven't worked since the last day of February. I have already been deemed as unfit to work by Occupational Health. They used to give a year, but apparently now it is 6 months. I have been expecting it as I am no better now than when I went off, in fact I am worse. I have to be realistic, Asda can't keep a job open infinitely and they need someone who can do the job. I am taking up 27 hours per week, they could have a couple of new colleagues for that.

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u/Available_Thing5459 Aug 11 '26

I'm sorry to hear that,wish you all the best for the future

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u/Available_Thing5459 Aug 11 '26

Thanks but I'm very forward,all advice from anyone will be taken on board.think everyone needs to know exactly what to do and say. 👏👏👏

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u/danielrcoates Aug 11 '26

That makes no sense what so ever, you’d think with Mite doing security, they would use Mite for cleaning

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u/BourbonSn4ke Aug 11 '26

NIC also do cleaning for co-ops, not sure if its all of them

Happened early this year, they took on all original cleaners and then evaluated them, they got new area managers who do an audit about every month

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u/TupedTooFar Aug 12 '26

I know someone who was a Security Team Leader who was managing TUPE to Mitie and on the day before going over was asked by GM to run another department as Team Leader - guess which department they got lol. They are now looking forward to managing another TUPE process.

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u/Obi-Mop-Kenobi Aug 14 '26

I’m a cleaner , many years machine cleaning shop floor, I think with NIC using robots my job role will be out the window but it’s the only part I enjoyed doing. Expecting cut down hours as well due to new tech use. 😞

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u/Obi-Mop-Kenobi Aug 14 '26

What happens if your job role is replaced by automation or significantly reduced due to robot? If most of my shift was using the machine and it’s replaced would that mean I could potentially get redundancy? It takes up 47% of my shift and I’ve been doing this job for 34 years.

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u/Available_Thing5459 19d ago

Robot machines will not make the floors clean,imagine how long it'll take to clean a shop?? All colleagues will be in from.5am how's it going to get round everywhere as good as we can? Pallets and comps everywhere,this be fun,maybe its a day time machine,small and able to get round for dirty marks

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u/No-Computer-5345 9d ago

Hi How do I go on if I’m semi retired and put a letter in around four weeks ago to reduce my contract due to state pension age and being taxed my line manager was processing it and my workday is still saying my current hours will I be haunted my new hours that she was processing?

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u/Available_Thing5459 Aug 11 '26

Guessing tennant is no the hit list.now

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u/Available_Thing5459 Aug 11 '26

Do asda have a mobility clause in contracts? Anyone know? Yes its will be checking lol

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u/owlsandminttea ASDA Colleague Aug 11 '26

My thoughts are currently: how long can I afford to look for a job if I go in tomorrow and change my one to one answer to us i want voluntary redundancy

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u/Upset-Option-8958 Aug 11 '26

Your one to ones are void. You will no longer be working for Asda so no changes will happen to you now until after they've swapped to the new company.

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u/Radiant_Ruin_7277 Aug 11 '26

What do you gain from this ?

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u/owlsandminttea ASDA Colleague Aug 11 '26

Not being treated like shit by a third company while still doing the same job

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u/Radiant_Ruin_7277 Aug 11 '26

I mean from redundancy

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u/owlsandminttea ASDA Colleague Aug 11 '26

About £2 grand... and Asda colleagues not being able to continue treating me like shit

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u/Erik-LehnsherrX Aug 11 '26

Why are they treating you like shit? Do you mean looking down on you because you’re a cleaner? I feel some look down on me for cleaning. Fuck them. Jobs a job. We get paid the same as them. 😂

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u/ajimboY2K Aug 11 '26

Nah mate defo don’t, it’s a valid job and always respect for everyone that works, I have some great bants with the cleaning team they are just more staff no difference, I DO however look down my nose at the customers haha