benefits & rewards
Every colleague makes a valued and unique contribution to our business. To show how much this is appreciated, we've developed a competitive benefits and rewards package.
colleague discount
After 12 weeks, you'll get your Colleague Discount Card. Just show it at the checkout and you'll save 10% off most products you buy in George, ASDA and our ASDA Living stores - from fantastic fashions to the weekly shop or DVDs to a new home entertainment system. What's more, your card is also welcomed in our Wal*Mart stores worldwide, which is great if you're thinking of going on holiday!
bonus
On top of all our other benefits we've an annual colleague discretionary bonus scheme. The bonus scheme is designed to recognise and reward our colleagues for their valued contribution throughout the bonus year and their continued contribution to the business. As long as you meet the length of service and individual performance criteria you'll be eligible to receive a bonus payment.
flexible working
At George we value our colleagues and we understand that we all have so many demands on our time that it can be impossible to fit everything in with our normal working lives.
This is why we lead the way in offering all our colleagues the opportunity to take advantage of our Flex scheme. You could take some 'me time', if for example, you need the afternoon to watch your child's sports day, or take an unpaid career break of up to three years after you've been with us for at least three years. We'd even give you time off if you wanted to be a blood donor!
There are a series of unpaid flexible working schemes in all which cover virtually every aspect of achieving a great work/life balance for our colleagues.
pension
It's never too early to start planning for your retirement and, whatever arrangements you've made already, the ASDA Pension Plan is a great addition to them. One of the best bits about it is that the company contribute into your pension too, really adding to its value.
share save
Once a year colleagues with 6 months service are invited to join the ASDA Share Save scheme. With Share Save you decide how much to save (between £5 and £250) every four weeks, which goes straight into your own account. After saving for three years you can choose to receive your savings plus a tax-free bonus, or you can use the money you've saved to buy discounted Wal*Mart shares. Since 1994, over 200,000 colleagues have benefited from Share Save. In 2008, we paid out nearly £38 million to 17,000 colleagues who planned to spend their cash on anything from horses, to shark dives to laser eye treatment!
voluntary benefits
Every year we produce a colleague Benefits Book featuring special deals and savings for colleagues on a whole range of national and local things including days out to theme parks, discounted new cars and fantastic savings on your family holiday. You can take the children to Chester Zoo for free, get in shape at a David Lloyd Club and save up to £200 on the joining fee or save up to 25% on airport parking next time you go on holiday. There are so many ways to receive discount that over the year it could save you hundreds of pounds!
ASDA law club
For only 10p a week, you can join the ASDA Law Club. This is an invaluable service, which could come to the rescue if you ever find yourself needing legal advice, maybe over a car accident, a disagreement with a neighbour or a store which has sold you faulty goods. Membership means you'll save money on potentially expensive legal fees and a 24 hour legal helpline is there to give instant advice and support.
private medical cover
We always look after our colleagues at George, especially when they need it most. That's why we've teamed up with a leading healthcare provider to offer colleague discounts on private medical cover to give them the very best care as soon as they find they need it.
recognition
When someone does something extraordinary, we make a point of recognising it in a number of ways which include:
'ABCD' (Above and Beyond The Call Of Duty) - Instant Rewards
We think great deeds deserve instant rewards. So if you go the extra mile for a customer, a colleague or even the local community you could receive an Instant Reward Card. Just remove the panel to reveal one of a variety of rewards.
'ABCD' - service heroes
Service Heroes is our company-wide recognition scheme, which gives us all a chance to recognise outstanding individual performance, as well as giving our customers an opportunity to highlight great service.
Each business area nominates a monthly Service Hero who receives a Golden Reward Card. This could result in the colleague receiving cinema tickets, a meal out and even a holiday! At the end of the year, one Service Hero is selected for each workplace and then nominated into the regional finals.
Regional winners are then invited to attend the glamorous ASDA Oscars where they're wined, dined and introduced by a celebrity compere - in the past these have been Ian Wright and Peter Kay! Then the overall Service Hero of the year is named on the night. The overall winner for 2007 was Saf Ali, an Optometrist from our Mansfield store. Saf saved a little girl's life by diagnosing a brain tumour during an eye test. Well done Saf!
tell andy
Andy Bond is ASDA's CEO and uses his suggestion scheme to encourage all colleagues within the business to put their ideas forward about how to make the business even more successful. If any of the submitted ideas are adopted by the business, colleagues can be sure that their contribution will be recognised.
long service
One of the main ways we measure our success as an employer is by the length of time that colleagues stay with us.
We're proud to display the number of years we've worked for the company on our name badge and milestones in long service are always congratulated locally and even nationally. Each year in November we hold a special celebration lunch for all our colleagues who have completed 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 and 50 years' service.