Pros
Final salary pension scheme. Discount on JL group shopping. Annual bonus. Great experience to get involved with a major retailer and work across the business. Plenty of initiatives. Some brilliant people to meet and work with. Good respect of holidays and variable access to services and group benefits. Great restaurant services.
Kontras
You'll be lucky if you ever see much of a pay rise after your start date. The bonus is used to offset wages and significantly used as a tool to retain people. Very few opportunities for training and development. Staff are generally treated poorly by management and their loyalty and commitment is taken advantage of, especially store staff. Many staff services and protections have been diminished year on year. The whole Partner model is has been subverted as a tool to suppress complaint and subvert action to make services and conditions better for staff by giving an appearance of having an influence.