ALS Global reviews

Management creates an overwhelmingly negative and toxic environment, which has resulted in half the team leaving in 6 months. Staff wellbeing takes a backseat to high work volume. Many of the staff who leave aren't replaced by new staff due to "budget reasons" - creating a stressed, overworked remaining team. Any issues that are raised get ignored, and only paint a target on your back; speaking out against abuse only creates a dead end for any future career growth with the company, and years of scrutiny under a microscope. Pay rises are non-existent. Enterprise Agreements are ignored and are "only a guideline" until the Union is forced to intervene. HR and upper management are only there to defend the company. The manager will destroy your confidence if you show any initiative.

-Moderately high staff turnover (avg one staff member every 3.5 months in a team of ~15) -Low salary (19.2k after ~3 years of experience) -Poor progression in both salary and role. Once you have 1.5 years of experience, you will want to move on to something new. -Poor sick pay for Covid isolation. (Management say this is an HR decision, either take SSP or annual leave) -Long history of putting business goals above welfare of employees. (e.g pay freezes while company was experiencing growth during the pandemic, not requiring mask use until Jan 2021, weekend work below 4 hours is paid at base rate) -Incredibly repetitive, dull work. Vast majority of processes are mastered in 2 weeks to 1 month. -Very frequent 'surprise' influxes of work. -Uncomfortably fast paced. -Manager has no clue what is happening in the lab at any one time. (no we cannot find 10 minutes for random task X)