Tesco has lost a high-profile “fire and rehire” case in the UK’s supreme court over proposals by the supermarket to let some staff go and re-employ them on lower pay.
The dispute with the shopworkers’ union Usdawbegan in 2021 and centred on moves to use firings or the threat of dismissal to remove retention payments awarded years earlier to some workers at distribution centres.
The UK’s highest court ruled that Tesco Stores Ltd could not terminate the employment contracts of staff to stop them receiving the retention payments and then rehire them on new contracts without the top-up.
The case has been closely watched because it raises wider questions about the practice of “fire and rehire” and an employer’s right to terminate a contract by giving notice to the employee and then re-employing them on less generous terms.
You mean companies being prohibited from firing and rehiring?
You know exactly what I mean. Why are you asking for clarification when it’s spelled out in the article what they wanted to do?
Tons of companies have fired half their employees and then re-hired them as contractors with lower salaries/wages.
And yet, you are complaining about the system that stopped it from happening.
And yeah, of course I understood what you meant. You also understood what I meant. Maybe you should look at “corruption” instead, you’ll get much better results there.
I think you’ve misunderstood. They’re arguing against the capitalist approach in which there was an attempt to fire and rehire employees to cheat employees and save the company money. The system which prevented the company from doing so was government intervention to protect workers, which is not a capitalist approach.
You’re arguing in good faith. They are not.
Capitalism didn’t stop it from happening… government oversight stopped it from happening.
What kind of government?
A democratically elected one?
Capitalism didn’t prevent this from happening. Capitalism is the reason this was attempted in the first place.