Staff
Employees
17.9 linear metres
Recruitment advertisements, employee handbooks, industrial relations material, staff registers and record cards , identification badges, national service, Good Fellowship Trust, 25 & 40 Year Clubs, Long Service Awards, Personnel department and policy, health and safety policy, management guides, employees’ correspondence and reminiscences, remuneration and benefits including profit sharing, discount cards and savings schemes, pension schemes and photographs of employees.
1880s – 2003. [see also SA/BR & BRA – Branch development, premises and operations, SA/BL – Head Office and SA/SC – Internal Communications]
Personalities
1 linear metre
Correspondence, biographical information and images relating to notable staff, 1903-1990s.
Social
6.95 linear metres
- Staff events
Dances, parties, dinners, outings, fetes, carnivals, Miss JS, including invitations, menus guest lists and photographs, 1930s-1960s.
- Retirement, veterans and pensions
Including Veterans Committee minutes, newsletters, reunion speeches, pension scheme booklets and handbooks, image files, 1934-2002.
- Staff societies
Sports, Griffin Club, SSA, Stamford Players, Family Days, including minutes of meetings, correspondence, events programmes, newsletters, photographs trophies and badges, 1920s-1999.
Sainsbury’s Staff Association sports trophies, shields and cups, 1930s-1990s.
Training
4.3 linear metres
Cashier, management and branch training manuals, workbooks and presentation material. Survey map, feasibility study images and historical background material relating to Fanham’s Hall training centre. 1950s-2002. [see also SA/BR & BRA – General Branch Operation, under ‘Branch development, premises and operations’]
Unions
0.5 linear metres
Records of Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staff and Supervisory, Administrative and Technical Association. Memoranda of agreement between J Sainsbury Ltd and trade unions, conditions of employment for maintenance workers, press cuttings and broadcast transcripts relating to disputes, image files, 1928-1980s.
