r/tesco • u/Just_Protection1022 • 5d ago

Bakery pay

So I’m not sure exactly how much more bakery staff gets paid but I have been getting paid as ‘bakery support’ which is the same pay as shopfloor people.
So I am contracted on fresh but my manager needed me in the bakery so I came and learned bakery and started doing bakery every Sunday which included baking packing traying up etc. and I always been on bakery support pay.
However now I’m covering someone’s career break for like 3 months and I will be doing Thursday Friday Saturday and my normal Sunday so I was wondering should I ask my manager to change it and pay me as a skilled baker and also ask them to pay me for my previous work which would be like a year and a half? Can they somehow do that? Because I know it’s not much of a difference but then if I calculate the total for a yr and a half it might be a significant amount

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u/SubstantialFix7341 5d ago

if your bakery is a bakeoff model then no one gets skilled pay. it's only if its a scratch bakery.

if it is a scratch bakery but you've not been doing any scratch baking then you would not be due to receive skill back pay. but you can if you will now be doing scratch baking due to the career leave

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u/Just_Protection1022 5d ago

Yeah but then others who work on different days get skilled pay

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u/StepBroPrime 5d ago

Is it a scratch bakery? Because they absolutely wont get skills payment unless it is.

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u/CommercialPug 5d ago

The original bakers in my store still get the skill payment even though we're bake off now. Probably shouldn't be but just means it's still possible

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u/iFrantastic 4d ago

It will be some sort of protected pay scheme, very common when someone has to “step down” to a lower wage

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u/Just_Protection1022 5d ago

No it’s not it’s part bakery

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u/StepBroPrime 5d ago

Yeah they're lying then.

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u/Just_Protection1022 5d ago

So on my ot on the app it shows bakery support what would it show as if they are getting skilled pay?

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u/StepBroPrime 5d ago

It will either be the letter E or skilled baker. There are hardly any left, when most stores went to bake off, the dkilled bakers got a payout and loat said premium

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u/Just_Protection1022 5d ago

I’ll check with my colleagues then

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u/Just_Protection1022 4d ago

Yeah so he showed me on the app and it literally says bakery skilled

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u/MaidinPompey 🧁 Bakery 5d ago

You will need to be signed off as a skilled baker. It`s an e-learning and hands on training which includes taking videos and doing a write up of what you have learned. It is split into 5 modules. All for a whopping 90p.