The Body Shop to close

[Zurdo]

One of my daughters worked for The Body Shop for many years. A graduate from Marama Davidson's retail course, and companies would line up to pick them. It suited her as a youngster - working all sorts of shifts in branches all over Auckland...and ear market for promotion through the ranks...and then backstabbed by those who she jumped ahead of. Time off as a solo Mum, then back to The Body Shop...maybe she never even left, dunno. She used to manage the Queen St store on weekends. With her daughter getting older she wanted to pick up more shifts, and if someone left, she would hope to pick up their shifts, but no, they would rather take on 2 young girls on contracts with no benefits. They were always wanting her to sign a new contract, but no, her old contract gave her holidays, time and a half for working public holidays, days in lew, sick leave etc. It started out great, but many ownership and management changes changes and it turned into typical exploitation of workers. The final straw was Covid, the Queen St store was hit hard, and she was squeezed out...until she left.