A 19-year-old Asda employee was left distraught after being “sacked from her job on Christmas Eve with out warning.”
Billie-Leigh Williams began working on the Tipton Superstore in October, however was unexpectedly given her marching orders over the festive interval. Her mum Kaye, 42, stated the dismissal “ruined” her daughter’s Christmas and significantly impacted her shallowness.
Billie-Leigh was fired 4 hours into her shift – however was instructed to maintain working till clocking off time, she claims. Kaye, from Friar Park in Wednesbury, stated: “To lose her job on Christmas Eve, at 6pm, ruined our Christmas. She was in pieces and left feeling worthless. My daughter struggles with anxiety and mental health issues and this has sent her spiralling.”
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Billie-Leigh stated: “I’m devastated because I have been left without a job, during a period where it is impossible to get a job. I’ve got no way of getting any money at the minute. I can’t even sign on, because I am at college full-time.
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“Not just the fact I have been left without a job, but that I enjoyed working there and earning my own money too. It just blew up on me on Christmas Eve. I’m angry.
“It was my first tax-earning job, I’d labored in a restaurant earlier than but it surely was money in hand. It is inhumane to fireside somebody on Christmas Eve and anticipate them to work till the top of their shift. I did not do something improper, I simply wasn’t fast sufficient. I do not need anyone else to expertise this as a result of it was horrible. It can leaving you feeling very, very low.”
She instructed BirminghamLive: “For an excellent few weeks, I used to be pressured, saying I wanted to be faster, in any other case my part chief threatened me, saying if I did not choose my pace up, I’d be getting a letter saying my contract wasn’t going to be renewed. I acquired a whole lot of strain coming from my supervisor.
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“I broke my back trying to get quicker, I was getting quicker and improving. Then I got called into the office on my shift and they said I wasn’t fast enough and they can’t keep everybody on, so they’re taking me off, so to speak.”
Billie-Leigh was employed as a everlasting employee and through her brief tenure, carried out extra time work to assist the corporate and did not have a sick day, stated her mum. Kaye, who feels her daughter was ‘taken benefit of’ by administration, went and confronted them three days after the incident and handed in Billie-Leigh’s uniform.
Kaye stated: “She was really happy with the job, she had finally found something she liked doing. The excuse they gave her was that they did not have enough hours for her in the New Year. She had been offered a permanent contract of employment, and at no point did they say she was at risk of losing her job.
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“To tell her on Christmas Eve, they obviously knew before – could they not have told her the day before, so she could have had the choice of not working it?”
Asda has been approached for remark.
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