Bullying and not paying commission are being used to get rid of an older generation and replace them with younger people
Twice a week we publish the problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Guardian Money supplement so that readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy's own insights. Here is the latest dilemma – what are your thoughts?
My mother works for a company that has grown over the past 10 years from 80 to 350 people. Over the past three months they have been gunning to get out the older generation and/or people who have been there for 10 years or more, and replacing them with younger people – whom I believe they think they can control more easily.
They have been giving mum and her colleagues a terrible time, not paying their commission, pulling them up in meetings and bullying them. One lady has been off with stress and they have refused to pay her. They have paid off a few to go quietly.
Mum cannot afford to leave her job as she is too old to get another one. She has seen the chief executive and HR but nothing has been done. Whom she should speak to? She doesn't know which way to turn.
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