A hospitality union has slammed West Brewery for sacking two employees for "insufficient work-rate and enthusiasm", adding one worker look "surly when walking". 

The employment email came as a shock to the two workers who have now lost their jobs. 

The East End bar claimed in their email that the brewery had to let the staff go after on observation did not meet standards.

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In correspondence with an employee, director Petra M Wetzel states: “Having observed the way you do the job, I do not think that your work-rate and enthusiasm for the job are of a sufficient standard for the business moving forward and so I have decided to terminate your employment.”

When an employee asked for clarification on the dismal they were told, in an email shared on Twitter: “You look surly when walking and give an air of not wanting to be at work.”

Unite Hospitality have since slammed the brewery, stating that being “surly when walking” is not a justifiable reason for employment termination during the pandemic.

They claim the dismissals have come after employees signed a grievance about pay during the coronavirus lockdown.

A Tweet reads: "Nothing to do with the fact that they were both signatories to a collective grievance about discrepancies with wages only a few weeks ago."

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West Brewery director, Petra M Wetzel, said: "Unite have chosen to put private correspondence between us and our employees onto social media.

"However, the employees are still our employees, and it would be inappropriate for us to comment publicly about details of how they have been performing in their roles.

"We have always been clear with staff that standards are expected to be good. That hasn't changed.

"Unite are attempting to attribute this to something else in order to drive an agenda against WEST.

"Unite raised an issue about the calculation of pay on 29 May, and that issue was sorted out immediately. It had only arisen because we needed to pay furlough pay to staff very quickly after the furlough scheme was initially announced.

"We did that so that staff were still receiving pay and did not find themselves with no income. We know that other employers made their staff wait and only paid them once they received funds from the Government.

"We didn't do that, but by the time the finer detail of the scheme was announced, the provisions on calculating wages for workers without fixed hours had been clarified and was different from initial indications.

"There is no issue outstanding, and to suggest that we are still making decisions based on something that was resolved over a month ago is nonsense. 

"Unite have chosen not to share our response to that which makes it clear that we respect anyone's decision to be a member of a Trade Union and to raise issues via their Trade Union."