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From higher education to ‘fire-and-rehire’ tactics, we must oppose the cowardly assault on workers’ rights
Mass job losses during the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes will carry an immense human cost, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
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GIVEN the immense suffering caused by the coronavirus pandemic, it is absolutely appalling that some companies see the crisis as an opportunity to be exploited for financial gain.

Across the country, unscrupulous bosses from Heathrow airport to Go North West in Manchester, and the Jacobs Douwe Egberts site in Banbury and British Gas nationwide, have used the pandemic as a smokescreen to implement disgraceful “fire-and-rehire” tactics in which salaries and terms and conditions are torn to shreds. 

In Leicester, we experienced this with SPS Technologies, an aircraft parts manufacturer, in my constituency of Leicester East. 

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