{"id":133708,"date":"2024-09-13T07:40:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T04:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/tesco-loses-uk-legal-battle-over-fire-and-rehire-of-staff\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T07:40:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T04:40:05","slug":"tesco-loses-uk-legal-battle-over-fire-and-rehire-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/tesco-loses-uk-legal-battle-over-fire-and-rehire-of-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesco loses UK legal battle over \u2018fire and rehire\u2019 of staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133708\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nTesco (TSCO.L), opens new tab was not entitled to terminate some employees&#8217; contracts and offer to rehire them on less favourable terms, the United Kingdom&#8217;s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.<br \/>\nShopworkers&#8217; union Usdaw took legal action against Britain&#8217;s biggest retailer after Tesco sought to remove some warehouse workers&#8217; entitlement to increased pay. Tesco ended their contracts and offered to re-engage them &#8212; a controversial practice often referred to as &#8220;fire and rehire&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s governing Labour Party has said it will outlaw &#8220;fire and rehire&#8221; tactics, but has yet to set out how it will replace current codes of practice. A spokesperson for Britain&#8217;s Department for Business and Trade said: &#8220;We will be bringing forward legislation soon to put an end to unscrupulous fire and rehire practices, which have no place in a modern labour market.&#8221; The Supreme Court ruled that Tesco was not permitted to use &#8220;fire and rehire&#8221; to remove some workers&#8217; increased pay and restored an injunction preventing the retailer from doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Tesco, which has a British grocery market share of nearly 28%, said it accepted the ruling. A spokesperson said it related to &#8220;a very small number of colleagues in our UK distribution network who receive a supplement to their pay&#8221;. &#8220;Our objective in this has always been to ensure fairness across all our distribution centre colleagues,&#8221; the spokesperson added. Paddy Lillis, Usdaw general secretary, said in a statement that the ruling was &#8220;a win for the trade union movement as a whole&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Lillis said of &#8220;fire and rehire&#8221; itself: &#8220;These sorts of tactics have no place in industrial relations, so we felt we had to act to protect those concerned.&#8221; The dispute centred on certain warehouse workers&#8217; entitlement to enhanced pay for agreeing to move to a new distribution centre back in 2007. When Tesco sought to remove the entitlement in 2021, it asked workers to agree to its removal for a lump sum payment or else their contract would be terminated and a new contract offered without the increased pay included.<\/p>\n<p>Usdaw initially won an injunction, which prevented Tesco from dismissing the warehouse workers and offering them new contracts, but Tesco overturned that ruling in 2022.The union&#8217;s lawyer, Oliver Segal, said in court documents for the appeal in April that led to Thursday&#8217;s ruling that Tesco was effectively arguing it has an &#8220;unrestricted freedom to terminate the relationship &#8216;at will&#8217;.&#8221; Tesco, however, argued the affected workers had received increased pay worth thousands of pounds each for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/retail-consumer\/tesco-loses-uk-legal-battle-over-fire-rehire-staff-2024-09-12\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/tesco-loses-uk-legal-battle-over-fire-and-rehire-of-staff\/\">Tesco loses UK legal battle over \u2018fire and rehire\u2019 of staff<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,2633,16084],"class_list":["post-133708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-staff","tag-tesco-loses-uk-legal-battle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}