Cleaner sacked for leading a pay protest at Philip Green's flagship Topshop store wins £75k payout

A CLEANER sacked for leading a pay protest at Sir Philip Green’s flagship Topshop branch has won a compensation payout of up to £75,000.

Susana Benavides, 43, was one of 200 workers who waved placards in front of the Oxford Street branch to demonstrate against low pay for agency cleaners.


She said she was on only £6.75 an hour at the time and just wanted “a few pounds more” to take her and her colleagues to the London Living Wage, a tribunal heard.

The protest, in March 2016, resulted in the store having to close its doors for 15 minutes.

Susana was later sacked, with her “thoroughly irked” bosses at Britannia Services Group Ltd accusing her of using social media to whip up support against Topshop.

Ecuadorian Susana had been a cleaner at the branch since 2009 and was prominent in trade union activities.

After her sacking, the mum of three, from Finsbury Park, North London, sued.

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Judge David Pearl at the Central London employment tribunal agreed it amounted to “automatic unfair dismissal”.

He said she had been sacked for exercising her right to take part in union activities. Britannia plans to appeal.

Susana’s payout has yet to be calculated, but papers show she is asking for £75,000.



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