Dwayne Gunness, president of Unifor Local 40 — which represents 40 beauty advisers — confirmed the layoffs, reports Radio-Canada.
And HBC won’t be providing termination pay to workers being laid off, according to one worker.
“I’m having a really hard time accepting the fact that we don’t get severance,” says Hazel Harris, one of the 157 laid-off distribution centre workers, according to the Radio-Canada report. “It’s very heartbreaking what’s going on.”
The employer also laid off nearly 200 corporate employees on April 4.
HBC has confirmed that it will not be providing severance compensation to the workers, according to Radio-Canada.
