Body Shop admits breaking employment law with ‘brutal’ last-minute mass sacking
by Liam James and Andy Gregory
Mar 03, 2024
3 minutes
The Body Shop has admitted to breaking employment law in sacking hundreds of people at a moment’s notice, The Independent can reveal.
Administrators for the troubled cosmetics company made some 270 head office staff redundant last Tuesday, telling them over Microsoft Teams that they would not be paid beyond the end of the day and the company would not provide them with any form of redundancy package.
The dismissed employees – some of whom had worked there for more than a decade – were instead told
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