British company Tesco has lost a legal battle in the High Court of England after the board of directors overturned a ruling in the company’s favour on appeal and upheld workers’ representation. The case, which has been going on for years, is that a Tesco employees’ organisation had sued the company because, in its view, A company involved in illegal employer practices against some of its employees.
The gist of it was that the company terminated the contracts of workers in some logistics centers on paper, and then continued to employ them under a new contract. However, all of this happened to the disadvantage of the workers, because
Under the new system, their wages were generally lower than before.
In addition, according to the papers, they were unable to claim the bonuses or higher salaries they had been entitled to until then in proportion to the time they had spent with the company.
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In the long-running legal battle, the lower court ruled in favor of the employee's side, but the decision was opposed by the employees. Tesco resumedThe second instance court ruled in favour of Britain's largest retailer, but the case was not closed, and workers' representatives took the case to the Supreme Court.
It overturned the ruling in the earlier case and, in agreement with the lower court, stated that Tesco's practices towards employees were not well-founded.
In addition, the court prohibited the company from continuing this practice in the future.
Tesco claimed that its actions were not directed against workers, but rather to promote the movement of workers in new buildings, so that they could also be used in other worksites outside their own area, if necessary. Workers’ representatives had no objection to the company putting in place this framework either, but as they pointed out, Tesco's action was based primarily on its intent.to pay lower wages to its employees.
As Origo recently wrote, Tesco also lost another important lawsuit.In that case, Lidl, which is expanding aggressively in England, was involved. So the British retail chain and the German-based discount chain are one and the same. They got into a trademark dispute with each other. In court
