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Treating workers fairly in an economic downturn

THE woman who was told she was too old for redundancy pay.

The man who was told he would have to accept a pay cut or leave his job. And the workers who were told that if they did not agree to a reduction in their hours, their names would be put in a hat and one of them would be made redundant. These are just some of the cases Citizen's Advice Scotland (CAS) has highlighted as evidence for their conclusion that bad employers are taking advantage of the tight financial climate to treat employees badly.