Vast majority of public say scrap 'hire and fire'

Seventy per cent of the public would like to see the controversial practice of ‘hire and fire’ a new poll from Survation and Unite the Union finds.

The practice allows bullying bosses to rip up established contracts and replace then with inferior ones.

This works either by forcing workers to accept new contracts by threatening redundancy if they don’t, or by firing workers and rehiring on reduced terms and conditions.

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