Sports Direct to offer some staff guaranteed hours

[LeftishBrit]

Sports Direct has said it will offer directly employed casual retail staff at least 12 guaranteed hours a week, instead of zero-hour contracts.

However almost all staff at the firm's troubled Shirebrook warehouse are agency workers and are not eligible.

In a report commissioned by the firm, it apologised for conditions at Shirebrook and admitted "serious shortcomings" in working practices.

The company has been under mounting pressure to overhaul the way it is run...


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37284114


(Note the second sentence in this; grrrrr!)

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1. Old dogs? New tricks?

Not a chance with Fat Cockney Bastard, as he's affectionately known in the North East.

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