Tesco asks staff to clean shelves, floors and loos

Retail staff will be asked to take on cleaning duties at Tesco's smaller stores after the chain ended contract cleaning services for those outlets. Shop workers will be expected to wipe shelves and fridges, mop floors and clean staff toilet facilities. While retail staff would be responsible for most cleaning duties around the stores, the firm said more "Specialist tasks" such as pressure washing and cleaning high signs outside would still be completed by third party suppliers. If your boss asks you to clean the office or the toilets, can you say "No"? "One Mumsnet member said staff should object to cleaning requests:"I don't think it's a good use of professional staff time to be doing so, and would expect people to be pushing back.

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