Argos staff at centre of fresh 'fire and rehire' controversy with 'hated' new contract
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mirror.co.ukArgos has become the latest big business embroiled in a “fire and rehire” controversy. Hundreds of workers at the retail chain, owned by Sainsbury’s, have been told to sign a hated new contract or face the chop.
However, the replacements deal will leave some staff thousands of pounds a year worse off. The Unite union says it amounts to yet another example of a major firm using “fire and rehire” tactics to slash costs and workers’ rights.
It has led for calls for use of the policy to be outlawed. A TUC survey found one in 10 workers have been threatened with “fire and rehire” plans during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The row at the former catalogue chain centres on a group of around 700 largely office-based workers. They include those in head
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