Everyone is welcome at Tesco

Diversity isn’t just a token gesture at Tesco. It’s a way of life. Because we believe organisations that have the best diversity policies tend to be the most successful. We aim to reflect the population of the communities we work in. We’re not concerned about your gender, age, religion or race – if you’re right for Tesco we want to encourage you to join us.

As well as improving training and raising awareness of diversity, we’re working to make our jobs more attractive to people from ethnic minorities. During Ramadan we change the time of store activities to allow staff to pray in a quiet space such as the staff training room. We also encourage stores to look at flexible leave so that staff could take time off for Diwali.

We give our people flexible working whenever possible. For example, we offer:

• Family-friendly shifts
• Maternity leave for all
• Paid paternity leave
• Equal training and development opportunities for part-time workers
• Childcare vouchers, for most types of childcare
• A career break scheme

We also encourage job-share, flexi-time or compressed hours, shift swap, working from home and part-time work when practical. In 2005 we took part in the DTI Work-Life Balance Challenge Fund. The ideas from this have been implemented in our flexible working request policy.

Working with Remploy and the Shaw Trust, which both act as 'job brokers' for disabled jobseekers, we’re reaching out to more disabled people. Since 2006 we have over 500 people supported in work by these two agencies. And we’re members of the Employers' Forum on Disability.