Dozens of engineers are to be given an immediate pay rise 24 hours after almost 60 stunned colleagues were sacked at a depot on the outskirts of Glasgow.
Fury erupted when it was discovered that 100 retained staff at the Endeva service centre in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, are to be given a wage increase of up to 3%. The pay promise comes a day after 56 engineers were told they were being made redundant.
The stunned workers, who were given no prior warning, were told to clear their desks and lockers immediately. One of the sacked workers said: “It’s absolutely disgusting. I had been with the company for almost 30 years. “Now I’ve no job but my ex-colleagues are to get a pay rise and many of them don’t have my experience.”
Endeva, which delivers and repairs domestic white goods such as cookers and freezers, has been in receivership since September following losses of hundreds of millions of pounds.
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