Ten workers at scandal-tainted Snow Brand Foods (SBF), the company found in January this year to have been mislabelling imported beef products to gain advantage of government BSE subsidies, filed a suit with the Saitama District Court yesterday [Monday] claiming that their dismissal from the company on Sunday 31 March was invalid.
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The workers, employed at a factory in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture, were all members of the labour union and union leaders have asked the court to order SBF to continue paying their salaries. Other members are expected to file provisional depositions at the districts courts in Sapporo and Kobe shortly.
Muneo Yoshimura, secretary general of the union, explained: “The company did not make an effort to avoid laying us off. We are angry over its selfishness.”
SBF is to be disbanded by parent company Snow Brand Dairy Products at the end of this month after the labelling scam devastated consumer confidence in the company’s products and led to plummeting sales.
