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Jake
06-07-2016, 10:04 AM
http://www.ft.com/fastft/2016/06/07/sports-direct-employee-gave-birth-on-toilet/
The Jorge
06-07-2016, 10:06 AM
http://www.ft.com/fastft/2016/06/07/sports-direct-employee-gave-birth-on-toilet/

Your link is brurk. Cut & paste?
Jake
06-07-2016, 10:11 AM
Your link is brurk. Cut & paste?

Oh bugger. Bloody FT. Basically:

Unite: one Sports Direct staffer gave birth in toilet in the warehouse having come in out of fear she'd be sanctioned for missing work

lol it's not lol, but lol.
The Jorge
06-07-2016, 10:17 AM
Oh bugger. Bloody FT. Basically:

Unite: one Sports Direct staffer gave birth in toilet in the warehouse having come in out of fear she'd be sanctioned for missing work

lol it's not lol, but lol.

That's how you get rich though, be a **** and the cash will start rolling in.
IUFG
06-07-2016, 10:18 AM
tbf on the info so far, it looks, prima facie, that the temporary agencies are the arseholes in this one.
Jake
06-07-2016, 10:40 AM
tbf on the info so far, it looks, prima facie, that the temporary agencies are the arseholes in this one.

https://twitter.com/hwallop/status/740116198021550080

Right, but who hires the temporary agencies?
IUFG
06-07-2016, 10:50 AM
Agreed, SD should insist on a better standard of management by the agencies of their workers.

I assume things like these prepaid cards are optional? Usually offered to recently arrived migrant workers who have no bank account. The agencies will no doubt receive an 'introduction reward' from the finance company.

Transline and Best Connection both use the mobile worker scheme (a tax avoidance scheme) to maximise their profits. A ludicrous scheme in reality but allowed (currently) by HMRC which sees the individual pay less tax but not all of the savings are passed on by the agency.

The strikes thing should be under pinned by a proper disciplinary policy and all this 'we can terminate you assignment at any time, without notice' is probably a bit rough around the edges and could be fairly easily challenged.

None of it unlawful but not in the right spirit.

Also, I am not quite sure how wearing branded goods is a breach of any safety and security rule.
PSRB
06-07-2016, 11:46 AM
http://www.ft.com/fastft/2016/06/07/sports-direct-employee-gave-birth-on-toilet/

This today from Mike Ashley......
Ashley says he'll end sexual harrassment at Sports Direct: "Simple as that fellas." Glances at female MPs. "Not just fellas, girls. Sorry." :hehe:
The Jorge
06-07-2016, 12:24 PM
This today from Mike Ashley......
Ashley says he'll end sexual harrassment at Sports Direct: "Simple as that fellas." Glances at female MPs. "Not just fellas, girls. Sorry." :hehe:

"Shat it you maafy Doris, you lav it!"