Coronavirus fears ask the Tesco delivery staff to advise each other to take the shopkeeper to COURT
Tesco deliverers have advised each other to bring their employer to court if they have to deliver food to people who are “aware of self-isolation” at home due to the corona virus.
In a forum for Tesco employees, the drivers wondered if it was a legitimate request to be asked to buy food in the homes of those who have Covid 19.
A driver said that a letter had been distributed in various stores stating that drivers still had to deliver to customers who had been told to isolate themselves.
In response, another employee urged them to bring the company to justice because they claimed it was a relief from their duty of care.
Tesco deliverers advised each other to bring their employer to court if they had to deliver food to people in isolation (pictured above a Tesco delivery van)
People at the forum discussed a letter allegedly sent around by the company
“It is a violation of public health and safety if Tesco endorses these actions. Drivers will certainly be able to cite many aprons of duty of care to a judge if they are reprimanded for not having delivered, “they said.
The employees stated that if someone was isolated, they were “high risk” and said it would not be fair to deliver goods to the property because they were still “members of the public” and were also susceptible to the disease.
Some drivers at the forum wondered how they would know if they had been sent to a house where someone was in isolation.
The current government advice to people who isolate themselves is to shop online.
The employee’s comments came when a handicapped woman claimed that a Tesco delivery person refused to bring groceries into her property because of the corona virus.
Mrs. Green said there were many alternatives in her store. People are pictured above for shopping in a Tesco store
A user on the forum wondered how many drivers had received the letter and claimed that no one in their store had seen it
After posting on Facebook, Maxine Green said she was “left crying on the floor” after a delivery person refused to bring in her groceries.
She said that Tesco drivers now cannot help customers with unloading messages “due to the corona virus.”
Tesco’s current home delivery policy is that it is trying to abolish the use of plastic bags and instead using containers to deliver groceries – claiming that drivers are given more time to help them in.
But Mrs. Green said a driver told her he couldn’t go into her house shopping.
Today, March 6, saw the largest one-day jump in the number of people who had confirmed the corona virus – there were 47 new cases, bringing the new UK total from 116 to 163
Maxine Green has posted on Facebook that Tesco drivers could no longer buy worried possessions
“What is NOT advertised everywhere on the website is that the current” anti-corona virus “policy means that (at least according to the driver I spoke with today) drivers are NOT in fact allowed to enter your house to help unpack goods, NOT EVEN FOR CUSTOMERS WITH A DISABILITY.
“This is supposed to reduce the risk of infection … despite the fact that infection is most likely transmitted through touch, and we are still expected to touch the same boxes, the same products, and the same electronic device to sign the receipt , and the driver’s gloves are clearly neither washable nor disposable.
“It is therefore a policy that has disproportionate consequences for disabled customers and at the same time is completely ineffective in achieving the set goal.”
She said the driver had been extremely apologetic, but that he could only bring the crates to her door and see her struggle with the items.
Mrs. Green hurled the company and her policies and said she would no longer use her services.
There are now 90 confirmed coronavirus cases in Great Britain after three were confirmed this morning in Scotland
Mrs Green continues in her position that this policy would affect the disabled the most
‘Tesco is a bad disappointment for your disabled customers – and probably also for the elderly, the sick, single parents and otherwise also less capable.
“I am shocked and disgusted by the thoughtlessness of your corporate policy and I will not use your services again unless I am 100% sure that these problems have been completely resolved. I really hope your management reads and learns this. ”
Tesco was unable to comment this afternoon.
It comes when the UK had its first coronavirus death yesterday.
Another patient in his 80s today was feared to have become Britain’s second coronavirus death.
It is thought that the unnamed man died of the disease at Milton Keynes University Hospital last night.
The number of people diagnosed with coronavirus in the UK has now tripled in three days, with only 51 confirmed cases on Tuesday. Forty-seven cases were announced today – the UK’s largest daily toll.
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