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Pasty bosses sack low-pay scandal whistleblower
Long-serving employee of Tory donors is pushed out after reporting efforts to undermine minimum wage – and another union rep’s job is also threatened

A COMPANY owned by a family of millionaire Tory donors has sacked a whistleblowing worker who exposed its efforts to dodge paying the new “National Living Wage.”

Samworth Brothers, which made pre-tax profits of £41.7 million last year, is at the centre of a scandal in which companies have reacted to the introduction of the higher minimum wage on April 1 by cutting workers’ terms and conditions.

The food giant, which supplies products such as Ginsters cornish pasties to major supermarkets, has slashed overtime, night shift and Sunday rates — even cancellingpaid tea breaks.

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