A group of Tesco employees took the grocer to the UK’s highest court over the use of the controversial “fire and rehire” tactic that helps employers to cut costs.
The distribution center workers allege they were either fired or forced to move 40 miles to a new place of work in 2009. Employees who agreed to relocate were offered a lump sum as an incentive to stay on working for the supermarket. In 2021 however, Tesco announced that it intended to fire those employees and offered to re-hire them on a worse contract with lower