{"id":7172,"date":"2015-12-18T12:03:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T12:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=7172"},"modified":"2015-12-18T12:03:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T12:03:54","slug":"end-victorian-work-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=7172","title":{"rendered":"End &#8216;Victorian&#8217; work practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A review by Mike Ashley into the use of agency workers at Sports Direct will be nothing more than a public relations stunt if it fails to end \u00e2\u20ac\u0098Victorian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 work practices at the retailer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Shirebrook warehouse, Unite warned today (December 18).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe review announced by the Sports Direct board today, follows a Guardian investigation which found that extra, unpaid time taken for &#8220;rigorous&#8221; compulsory searches meant workers were paid less than the minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nLikening working conditions in the warehouse to a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098gulag\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, the investigation also found that workers were being \u00e2\u20ac\u0098docked\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 wages for arriving as little as a minute late to work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8220;Shameful &#8216;Victorian&#8217; work practices have no place in modern Britain and this review should not deter HMRC from investigating the non-payment of the minimum wage to agency workers at Sports Direct,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Unite regional officer Luke Primarolo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite has repeatedly raised concerns with the board and Mike Ashley directly about the use of \u00e2\u20ac\u0098Victorian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 work practices,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe look forward to participating fully with Mike Ashley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s review and to working with Sports Direct to eradicate the mistreatment of workers at its Shirebrook warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIf his review is to be taken seriously then it has to have concrete outcomes, such as restoring dignity at work by moving agency staff at Best Connection and Transline workers onto permanent contracts,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Primarolo went on to say.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u015bA failure to do so will do nothing to restore investor and customer confidence and leave the board open to accusations of doing nothing more than engaging in a public relations stunt.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review by Mike Ashley into the use of agency workers at Sports Direct will be nothing more than a public relations stunt if it fails to end \u00e2\u20ac\u0098Victorian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 work practices at the retailer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Shirebrook warehouse, Unite warned today (December 18). &nbsp; The review announced by the Sports Direct board today, follows a Guardian investigation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[388,251],"wps_subtitle":"Sports Direct review risks being PR stunt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7174,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172\/revisions\/7174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}