Asda is to be questioned for the second time by MPs who found discrepancies in the evidence it provided over alleged ‘fire and rehire’ tactics.
The Business and Trade Committee has asked the supermarket giant to give further information, despite chief commercial officer, Kris Comerford, having told MPs last week that “fire and rehire tactics are not something Asda employs.”
The retailer is currently facing criticism for its plans to scrap a pay premium for staff in the south east, The Grocer reported.
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GMB union claims that Asda workers across 39 stores outside the M25 will lose 60p per hour in ‘location supplement’ and have their night supplement reduced from November.
GMB national officer Nadine Houghton said that the trade union “welcomes” the Business and Trade Committee’s decision to recall Asda.
She claimed that the retailer has told workers in the affected stores that “if they do not accept the pay cut, the discredited practice of fire and rehire will be used to impose it”.
“It is deeply unfair for Asda to cut pay during a cost-of-living crisis, even more so to use fire and rehire to achieve this.They deserve to be treated fairly,” Houghton added.
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Don’t shop at asda everyone don’t do it
They did this in 2019. New contracts. If we did not accept the new contract, we were deemed to have left the business. No choice. Take it or leave it. It’s fire and rehire !!
I worked they for years and I got a contract from 28 hours to 18 and everytime you got a extra 20p pay rise you lost hours no thanks trou the pandaic it’s a horrible place to work I fort slaves got bollish years ago and them two brothers don’t care I hope they go broke
We all marched on asda house to try and stop this practice of fire and rehire but they had us all over a barrel when they forced the changes of contract6 on us . They have ripped everything from us