Agency workers. The agreement signed in London in mid-November puts an end to several months of conflict between Unilever’s management and the 200 Pakistani workers of its Lipton subsidiary in Khanewal. For months, they had been demanding better working conditions while they had been working, sometimes for over 20 years, with temporary contracts, 28 days a month, without vacation and with wages amounting to one third of those of permanent workers. The Anglo Dutch company only had 22 permanent employees at the Khanewal factory and massively appealed to agency workers, using competition between the six local temporary work agencies.
r over 20 years, with temporary contracts, 28 days a month, without vacation and with wages amounting to one third of those of permanent workers. The Anglo Dutch company only had 22 permanent employees at the Khanewal factory and massively appealed to agency workers, using competition between the six local temporary work agencies.
Action committee. Deprived of union rights (right to join the Unilever union, right to bargain with the management) on the account that their direct employer didn’t an
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