UNION leaders have expressed hopes that years of legal wrangling over compensation for thousands of shop workers who lost their jobs when stores went out of business could be resolved.
Usdaw has been pressing for compensation for former employees of Woolworths and Ethel Austin who didn’t receive money because they worked in stores with fewer than 20 staff. The Court of Justice of the European Union will decide on the legality of the case next month.
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