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TWO journalists employed by anti-union freelance media agency the Press Association (PA) have won compensation after being sacked.
The National Union of Journalist (NUJ) members worked at PA’s production centre at Howden in East Yorkshire.
PA lost the contract for the work they did to a French firm.
Their jobs were supposed to be transferred under British legislation known as Tupe – Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) — introduced by Labour in 2006. The French firm refused to recognise the legislation leaving the two workers unemployed with no redundancy, compensation, or notice pay.
The NUJ took up the cases and won an undisclosed amount of compensation.
One of the two, Clare Hoppett, who worked as a deputy team leader for PA, said: “I cannot stress enough the importance of being a member of a union in your workplace, especially in the rapidly changing media industry.”
