UK cosmetics company's Lush just released a statement to all their North American employees.
“Now that the Holiday is over to safeguard the health of business no pay increase at all at this time. To ensure growth, profit, and sales, all staff will receive an email at 6 p.m. with more insight as to how this decision came into place.”
This is a company that promotes themselves on being a fair trade, organic, progressive, etc… business that just told all of their staff for the last year they are striving to pay all their employees a living wage. Then they followed this “we can't afford to pay you” statement telling all their staff they increased prices in the stores 3-10% across the board. Imagine a self-proclaimed progressive company actually being another scummy corporation.