Tesco 'fire and hire' tactics at Livingston distribution centre prompt call for Holyrood inquiry - your views

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Tesco 'fire and hire' tactics at Livingston distribution centre prompt call for Holyrood inquiry

Mary Smith

Well, we don’t have to shop there. Show support, no one should be treated like that. Shame on Tesco.

James Jenkinson

This is where we need people power. It used to matter how companies treated their employees. Just change your store and if everyone did it for even a couple of weeks they would feel it. But they know that the public won't do anything about it, that is the contempt this company has for its customers. I for one will shop elsewhere,

Wil Paul

Other companies will be do the same soon. Welcome to the Corona future.

Liz Laing

Their profits will have gone through the roof during this pandemic, yet they treat their workers like this!

Susan Reeve

Once again the ever increasing profits of the few is prioritised over decency, respect and the financial well-being of the many. The people who get up every day and work to make a company profitable should have more rights than the shareholders who were lucky enough to have money to invest, but otherwise contribute nothing to the business.

Malcolm Lind

Give unions back their teeth. This is exactly the sort of situation that a "wildcat strike" was designed to counter, with mass picketing.

Jim Rutherford

So the people have continued to shop during the pandemic and the supermarkets have made millions in profit. Goes to show how disgusting the shareholders are.

Shelly Bee

Terrible way to treat members of staff who have kept their shops going during a global pandemic.

Brian Lillie

Midlothian Council did something like that years ago. Told us a new contract was being made up and to sign it by this date or no job for you.

Sally Berwick

Well, people gave away employment rights, holiday pay, sick pay and maternity leave when they voted to leave the EU, so you could take control! That worked out well, eh?

Bobby Bravado

Charming. People need to start waking up to the fact they are disposable and replaceable.

Chick Macdonald

This isn't just Tesco, loads of companies are going to play the same game. It’s an assault on workers’ rights and conditions while lining the pockets of their rich shareholders.

Dawn Stevenson

It makes me sick the way some companies treat their staff these days. We seem to be going backwards. Fire, rehire, restructure and all in the middle of a pandemic. It really doesn't get much lower than that.

Tia Stockdale

It’s started the great reset, either take a low wage or no wage.

Gerry Forrest

That's disgusting, they're raking it in just now. That's a lot of money to have cut off your wages.

Mike Mccarthy

Tesco managed to change the contracts when they shut us down in Dundee and moved to Livingston. Thank god I didn’t follow them.

Elizabeth McArthur

With high unemployment lurking on the horizon the situation is bound to worsen. This is only the beginning of employee abuse.

Ross Kelly

Fight for your rights workers, the same happening to me and my colleagues, this needs outlawed.

Garry Wood

I am going to boycott Tesco, this is shocking. People have worked so hard though this pandemic - Tesco should be ashamed.

Ray Wallace

Asda did the same thing while we where still in the EU and got away with it.

Paul Black

Yip, a joke truck. Drivers just get treated like any other driver; the fact that it’s a skilled job seems to get overlooked.

Duncan Raeburn

Is this the sign of what's to come with this Tory government and Brexit?

Ruth MacDonald

Tesco are coming out with so many excuses – the new pay system can’t cope with paying retained pay; it’s not fair to other staff not getting retained pay. That’s Tesco’s problem to sort out. Directors promised to pay retained pay until each employee left the company. It was written in their terms and conditions and clearly stated it could not be removed or negotiated away. Set in stone.

Tammy Leask

British Gas are doing this to 7000 employees right now with no offer of redundancy.