Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

Last week, Deputy Bríd Smith and I met a group of Tesco workers, who are so-called dot.com workers. In other words, they are the workers who pick the products if one orders online on tesco.com. They have to pick between 180 and 190 products per hour, and they are the delivery drivers who deliver that shopping to people's doors.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, these were the people who made sure that vulnerable people were able to get their groceries on a week-to-week basis but they are being treated horrendously by their employer, Tesco. They have had their hours changed unilaterally, which has had the consequence of a huge cut in their pay. Some of them are down up to €4,200 a year, which has a big impact on the organisation of their family lives, childcare and so on. Does the Taoiseach agree that Tesco should withdraw these unilateral changes and should agree with their workers and their union Mandate?

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