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DismissIceland is a supermarket chain. They specialise in frozen food.
iceland.co.ukDo Iceland pay breaks?
No. Most people don’t get paid breaks at Iceland.
Supermarkets who pay breaks include Aldi, Co-op Food and Southern Co-op.
Last updated 26 January 2023
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What people are saying about sick pay at Iceland
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Best thing
Good Job as a student to earn a living part-time.
Worst thing
You are underpaid and put under a magnitude of stress by management. Furthermore, you are not allowed to take breaks and you are always expected to work overtime for free.
Iceland Assistant manager, September 2022
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Best thing
Small discount and the team can be lovely.
Worst thing
Lack of upper support. Constant moving of managers, and threats to supervisors/seniors being moved. Very high work load with hours cut every other day. Expected to dedicate your life to the company, have no clue when your days off could be as they can change all the time. No set in stone routine, could open one day then close the next, completely messes up your body clock and mental well-being. Past managers have been so horrible and manipulate you into doing things you don’t want to do, and scaring you about the threat of being transferred etc. left as only member of management on shifts so can’t actually go out and take your breaks, hour and half unpaid breaks daily which are impossible to take when only you running the shift. Company constantly adding in new things for us e.g. same day picking and Uber but hardly any extra funding for hours to do so. Overall, just a terrible company. Did well for me in the past with progressing but can only progress if the manager likes you, despite if you’re good at your job or not. Highly recommend don’t join this company. Supervisor upwards pay is decent, but sales assistant pay isn’t worth the hassle.
Iceland Supervisor, August 2022
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Best thing
My team. We're a tight-knit bunch that exceed in spite of the company, not because of it. We've been through a lot together, and we kick ass.
Worst thing
Upper management (area manement and above). One is reminded of a delusional general moving units- that may or may not exist- around on a battle map, certain that the next imagined counterattack will halt the enemy advance, while the muzzle report from the guns of the enemy artillery may be heard from his bunker. We run on the sniff of an oily rag. Hours budgets for stores have been slashed, meaning about 30-50% less staff to manage the same workload. As a consequence, our breaks are as long as it takes to scarf a sandwich, and cane a can of RedBull before pressing our faces firmly up against the grindstone once more. Six day weeks. Seven day weeks. Eight day weeks. 14hr days. We are burnt out; all of us, from cashier to manager- the walking dead. Unpaid overtime is the norm- I personally work a bare minimum of five hours unpaid a week, usually more. What thanks are forthcoming for our efforts from the gilded halls of Deeside (HQ)? None, save for the highly occasional, sunbleached £10 voucher from our Area Manager- only given because it was going out of date in a month anyway, after months of sitting on the dashboard of his car. What solidarity is shown with the frontline from upper management? None. They cut our wage budgets on the frontline to save costs, but, as far as I know, the blubber in upper management remains. In a period of high sales and profit, our belt tightens while theirs loosens. They don't care about me or my team, and they won't care about you either.
Iceland Supervisor, August 2022
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Best thing
Good pay for students and young people (£9.00 an hour). Flexible hours. Staff discount.
Worst thing
Poor management, disrespectful and u professional staff and managers, encouraged to not take breaks, lack of training / online training is disregarded, lack of support when asking for help or ringing till bells. All of the other staff may go on a break together and leave you alone on the shop floor, ignoring till bells, when it’s your second day.
Iceland Retail assistant, April 2022
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Best thing
Collegues
Worst thing
Too much to do in the hours you get no one takes their breaks properly because the workload is too big
Iceland Retail assistant, March 2022