Tesco is to hold crisis talks with employment officials as the row over the supermarket chain’s use of ‘slave labour’ intensifies.
Several high-profile companies have already pulled out of the Government’s under-fire ‘workfare’ scheme and the food retail giant is getting increasingly jittery after one of its stores was forced to close by protesters.
Tesco says it wants the rules changed to make it clear no one would lose their benefits if they do not wish to continue working.
Tesco is also concerned after thousands of angry customers wrote in and posted messages on its Facebook page, accusing the firm of profiting from hundreds of thousands of hours of forced unpaid work.
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