>They were told they will not be paid for any or all work they performed between 11 and 28 February. They are also owed money for holidays. In the Cork shop, which I contacted this afternoon, five workers are employed and the owners owe those five workers more than €10,000. One staff member is owed more than €4,000. One of the workers is a single parent with three kids to take care of.
Some dodgy fucking dealings taking place. Aurelius, a vulture fund which specialises in asset stripping, bought it off natura, and then turned around and secretly sold off several wings (including Ireland) to Alma24, without even the workers knowing for ages, only knowing it had been sold again to someone. The Irish press have still been reporting that it’s owned by Aurelius but the guardian seems to have much better info. It was sold for a few hundred million to Aurelius but on the basis that they would pay most of that if it hit certain sales targets, which obviously it can’t hit now so they get to strip the assets at a discount
I wish all the Brit shops would disappear from our streets.
Maybe if there was a system that forced every company to have lodged a week’s or fortnight’s salary for every employee (updated figure every 6 or 12 months) to a government account? – to be used in cases of liquidation.
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Was in the Cork store last year while pregnant and a girl working there was so friendly and kind to me. I hope they get some recompense, this is awful for them.
Anita Roddick didn’t create body shop for this kind treatment. It’s such a shame!
they got rid of classics like white musk and ruined their whole reputation. Never bought from them again after that.
This paragraph piqued my interest:
“We must now go to the Government with our hands out, because of the way this has been done we are unable to undertake [other] employment for 30 days unless the Minister waives it for us,” she added, before signing off by saying: “It’s a sad day for us all”.
Am I understanding it correctly that the former employees are somehow prevented from taking other employment for 30 days? Was there some sort of non-compete contract in place?
It is scented lotion and soap for god’s sake, it is not exactly cutting edge technology or trade secrets they could take to a competitor. I don’t understand how a company can deprive a person of making a livelihood. And if the company doesn’t have the money to pay their employees for the hours they worked… where would the money come from to pursue legal action against the former employee?
Absolutely disgraceful behaviour from the Body Shop.
Free labour. I bet someone else higher up was definitely paid.
“And sold to Friedrich Trautwein” lol. Its probably a regular German name but with the context of the story it just seems cartoonishly evil.
If I was a manager or someone in charge of closing, I would have again asked, ‘your not paying me?’ . Once confirmed, I would have walked, leaving the entire shop open and running to fend for itself.
The one in the UK went into administration a couple of weeks ago so no surprises unfortunately the Irish one followed.
I’m pretty surprised though, it’s a good brand with good natural products which I’d thought would have a good demand.
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Where will I buy a Body now?
Surely that isn’t legal?
I think they will
From Mick Barry in the Dáil this week:
>They were told they will not be paid for any or all work they performed between 11 and 28 February. They are also owed money for holidays. In the Cork shop, which I contacted this afternoon, five workers are employed and the owners owe those five workers more than €10,000. One staff member is owed more than €4,000. One of the workers is a single parent with three kids to take care of.
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2024-02-28/speech/207/
Some dodgy fucking dealings taking place. Aurelius, a vulture fund which specialises in asset stripping, bought it off natura, and then turned around and secretly sold off several wings (including Ireland) to Alma24, without even the workers knowing for ages, only knowing it had been sold again to someone. The Irish press have still been reporting that it’s owned by Aurelius but the guardian seems to have much better info. It was sold for a few hundred million to Aurelius but on the basis that they would pay most of that if it hit certain sales targets, which obviously it can’t hit now so they get to strip the assets at a discount
I wish all the Brit shops would disappear from our streets.
Maybe if there was a system that forced every company to have lodged a week’s or fortnight’s salary for every employee (updated figure every 6 or 12 months) to a government account? – to be used in cases of liquidation.
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Was in the Cork store last year while pregnant and a girl working there was so friendly and kind to me. I hope they get some recompense, this is awful for them.
Dirtbags, shitbags, cuntbags, pricks. Assholes, arseholes, sleeveens, shits. Shitehawks, wankers, geebags, gits. The body shop, let’s hope maggots, eat their, clits.
Anita Roddick didn’t create body shop for this kind treatment. It’s such a shame!
they got rid of classics like white musk and ruined their whole reputation. Never bought from them again after that.
This paragraph piqued my interest:
“We must now go to the Government with our hands out, because of the way this has been done we are unable to undertake [other] employment for 30 days unless the Minister waives it for us,” she added, before signing off by saying: “It’s a sad day for us all”.
Am I understanding it correctly that the former employees are somehow prevented from taking other employment for 30 days? Was there some sort of non-compete contract in place?
It is scented lotion and soap for god’s sake, it is not exactly cutting edge technology or trade secrets they could take to a competitor. I don’t understand how a company can deprive a person of making a livelihood. And if the company doesn’t have the money to pay their employees for the hours they worked… where would the money come from to pursue legal action against the former employee?
Absolutely disgraceful behaviour from the Body Shop.
Free labour. I bet someone else higher up was definitely paid.
“And sold to Friedrich Trautwein” lol. Its probably a regular German name but with the context of the story it just seems cartoonishly evil.
If I was a manager or someone in charge of closing, I would have again asked, ‘your not paying me?’ . Once confirmed, I would have walked, leaving the entire shop open and running to fend for itself.
The one in the UK went into administration a couple of weeks ago so no surprises unfortunately the Irish one followed.
I’m pretty surprised though, it’s a good brand with good natural products which I’d thought would have a good demand.