Sports Direct 'bugged' Our Visit To Shirebrook Warehouse, Say Mps

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37899067

This is almost unbelievable.....an attempt to bug the 6 MPs, in a rather cack-handed way ! From the above link :::::

"A spokesman for Sports Direct declined to comment"

I bet he didn't !

[Peter Pedant]

Grom - how very like Brexit - the law applies but not to me or not here or not then

Data protection does of course apply - and more so here if employees were not present - a fortiori as the lawyers might say

and to say as you have "OK data protection applied to employees doesnt apply to visiting MPs or clients or customers" is to .... misunderstand the law on this point - for example the Eight Principles apply to both

The MPs said it was debrief - and so I concluded that employess were present ( so er-er employment law comes back in) - otherwise the MPs would debrief themselves in private wouldnt they ? [ where they could control their envirnoment ]

[Baldric]

Welcome to . . . . "Sports Direct"

. . . The New American Election!

[Peter Pedant]

poetic Baldric - delphic even

.... and every last word will be recorded and replayed ....

[Gromit]

Mikey,
// it will show all the breaches in the law that the Company has been guilty of. //
Just looked at the Wiki entry, and it does NOT list Sports Direct's guilt. It lists unproven allegations, for non of which it has been prosecuted.

// December 2015, an investigation by The Guardian found that the company fines staff for late clocking on, does not award overtime for late clocking off, relies on zero hour contracts, and regularly makes staff wait unpaid for a security check at the end of shifts. //

Fining lateness, and the rest, are not illegal and the company is operating lawfully.

[youngmafbog]

Unusually I am 100% behind Gromit on this one.

Nothing annoys me more than MP's bleating about companies not acting morally. Pots - kettles ? And that is all it is, SD while clearly not being company of the year are not breaking laws just like companies that avoid tax. If the MP's really dont like it then they are in a position to change it so they would be best spending their time doing just that.

[ToraToraTora]

their office their rules mikey. Have they done anything illegal?

[youngmafbog]

I trust the indignant MP's handed the free sandwiches to the poor downtrodden workers?

[mikey4444]

Gromit, and others...take another look at the Wiki entry ::

"In October 2015, the chief executive of Sports Direct, David Forsey, was charged with a criminal offence for consultation failures over USC staff who only had 15 minutes notice of redundancy"

and

"In August 2016, Sports Direct admitted breaking the law and will disburse unlawfully withheld wages totalling about £1m to the affected workers"

[Bazile]

The sports direct Boss invited them to look at his operations , when he appeared before the committee .

The management at the Warehouse , was not aware of that , so it would appear .
It would have been nice to tell them so that they could suspend the daily floggings

[mikey4444]

Bazile....most people in Britain were aware that Ashley had appeared before the Committee, and most would know that he had invited them to call.

It seems that while the Committee didn't see anything that terribly wrong, they were given the runaround by an angry Sports Direct management.

Eventually Sport Direct will have speak on this issue, and it will nice to see how they are going to explain themselves !

[mikey4444]

Sports Direct have now denied that this incident ever happened !

You couldn't make it up !

[jno]

as I understand it, you can't record conversations without the consent of all parties, under privacy legislation. I don't think it makes any difference where.

[mikey4444]

jno....common sense !

[Peter Pedant]

jno
then you understand it wrong
consent is one-sided - so long as one party knows

here the employer was doing it ( not one of the parties )

see refs above

[Gromit]

Jno,
I seem to remember that during 'Plebgate', Andrew Mitchell secretly recorded his meeting with West Midlands Police Federation, who promptly talked to the media afterwards and told a pack of lies. Mitchell's secret recording proved them to be a bunch of liars.
As I said first post, the MPs were on private property, and the MPs had consented to be recorded all day. The camera was placed so obviously that they MPs weren't duped, more like warned.

[RandyMarsh]

sandwiches looked a bit ropy.

[jno]

if the MPs were warned, no problem at all.