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Looking for a new job? Lidl is hiring 100 people for its new distribution centre in Kildare

Kildare County Council has given the go-ahead for the new site on the Naas Road, Newbridge.

BUDGET SUPERMARKET LIDL has announced it will create 100 new jobs in Newbridge, Co Kildare.

Kildare County Council has given the supermarket giant the go-ahead for a new distribution centre on the Naas Road in Newbridge, where the jobs will be created.

German company Lidl first entered Ireland in 2000. It now has over 150 stores across the country and plans to reach 200 over the next five years.

At over 54,000 square metres, the distribution hub will have a workforce of 350, 100 of which will be newly created positions.

The development includes the construction of a significant stretch of new public road, which will form the first part of the Newbridge bypass.

[image alt="CGI of Lidl's new warehouse" src="http://cdn.thejournal.ie/media/2018/01/cgi-of-lidls-new-warehouse-296x166.jpg" width="296" height="166" credit-source="Lidl" caption="A%20computer-generated%20image%20of%20Lidl's%20new%20distribution%20centre%20in%20Kildare.%20" class="alignnone" /end]

Lidl confirmed that it is currently in the process of tendering both the road infrastructure works and the distribution facility. It anticipates that construction work will commence in April of this year.

“We would like to sincerely thank all the local community and residents for their positive engagement throughout the planning process and will provide regular updates to the local community throughout the construction process,” Alan Barry, director of property at Lidl said.

Read: ‘Common sense has prevailed’: Lidl in Ballymun a step closer after NTA drops objection

More: Lidl’s plans for Castleknock development hit with High Court challenge

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    Jan 11th 2018, 10:49 AM

    They are a lot better at treating the employee than the Irish supermarkets

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    Jan 11th 2018, 10:54 AM

    @Tony Hogan: Times have changed then Tony. I used to work over 70 hours a week as a Lidl manager, on ocassion i worked over 100 hours and all for 32k.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 10:59 AM

    Could not have working time directive max 48hours per week you where off your trolley forget the pun

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    Jan 11th 2018, 11:05 AM

    @Seamus Og:
    Have no personal experience of working for Lidl or Aldi but the impression one gets is they pay reasonably well but by God you work for it.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 11:08 AM

    @Seamus Og: Yeh I heard they chew you up and spit you out alright. Good place for a young graduate to go though, work like a slave for a few years, earn a nice few quid (they pay much more than that now for mgt) and some experience then get a nice handy number elsewhere after realising retail management is hell as a career.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 11:17 AM

    @Tony Hogan:

    You can elect to do overtime and work longer hours if you choose to

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    Jan 11th 2018, 12:40 PM

    @Nick Allen: not true unless you are self employed or working in the north!

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    Jan 11th 2018, 1:14 PM

    @Martin O’Rourke:

    Not true Martin.

    The maximum working week is an average of 48 hours a week over a given period of time, normally 4 months. If a person works fewer than 48 hours during this time they are allowed to carry the time to another week and work overtime. Furthermore, if a person takes leave (sick, parental, holiday or maternity) during the 4 month then the person can elect to work overtime if they so wish

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    Jan 11th 2018, 1:40 PM

    @Martin O’Rourke: @Tony Hogan The EWT has so many cop outs that it’s not worth the paper it is written on. For example the following section indicates when you can work more than 48 hours and it basically covers everything

    An activity falling within a sector of the economy or in the public service—

    (a) in which it is foreseeable that the rate at which production or the provision of services, as the case may be, takes place will vary significantly from time to time,

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    (b) the nature of which is such that employees are directly involved in ensuring the continuity of production or the provision of services, as the case may be,

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    Jan 11th 2018, 4:53 PM

    Wrong it’s over 3 months

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    Jan 11th 2018, 5:06 PM

    @Nick Allen: Completely true in all you are saying. However Lidl, like many other employers, simply do not give a sh#t! But i would be of the opinion that should I, being of sound mind, want to work 12 hours per day 6 days per week I should be allowed and my employer should let me without fear of ending up in the labour court! Make hay while the sun shines!! But I do understand the logic behind the organisation of working time act.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 7:22 PM

    @Tony Hogan: in Lidl you had to put yourself down for a max of 48 hours on the rota eventhough you worked twice that.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 10:38 AM

    Thank God for LIdl and Aldi. Country’d be fewked without them.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 10:52 AM

    @Sensword Byhax: there’d be lidl employment opportunity without aldis shopping centres around de place!!!!

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    Jan 11th 2018, 12:38 PM

    @Sensword Byhax: Every Lidl helps!

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    Jan 11th 2018, 11:23 AM

    I’ve worked for Aldi/ Lidl distribution.
    Very very strict with procedure.
    Like working on a Columbian poppy field but without the guns.
    They make you do 8 hours work in 3/4 hours… if you miss targets you get shot (sacked) or if you hit targets you get promoted to dealer…do 80 hours work in 40 hours.

    Not recommended.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 11:38 AM

    @space invader:

    Doing 80 hours work in a 40 hour time period is referred to as working hard and is actually only 40 hours work whatever way you want to spin it. A lot people in Ireland work hard every week to pay tax which is used in part to fund our welfare state.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 1:09 PM

    @Nick Allen:

    Working hard eg doing 80 hours work in 40 hours is physically unsustainable. It will eventually lead to the employee finding employment elsewhere, sickleave, stress, exhaustion and possible death.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 1:17 PM

    @Lily:

    Working 80 hours in a 40 hour period is physically impossible as opposed to physically unsustainable. Working your nuts off during the 40 hours is what many people do to survive.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 1:57 PM

    @space invader: It not only in Aldi / Lidl.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 11:13 AM

    140,000+ on the dole.

    Sign them up asap!

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    Jan 11th 2018, 2:17 PM

    @Franklin Roosevelt: Have you submitted yours?

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    Jan 11th 2018, 12:11 PM

    It will be up and running and the planning process for the Athenry Data Center will be still on going.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 2:16 PM

    @Johnr: And it will provide much more to the community and the country than the data centre ever will.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 2:06 PM

    The working class hate being offered work. It is much easier to sponge off those that work.

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    Jan 11th 2018, 2:54 PM

    Free jobs advert for Lidl

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