By Amber Murray Tesco has lost its ‘hire and fire’ appeal after the Supreme Court ruled it cannot terminate its employees’ contracts for the purpose of depriving them of retained payment. The judge said that employees’ contracts contained a clause barring the supermarket giant from removing their right to retained pay. The ‘landmark’ legal battle was initially brought in 2021 by employees of Tesco’s Daventry and Litchfield distribution centres, along with the trade union Usdew. The case claimed that the grocer had dismissed staff and offered to re-engage them on “inferior” terms and conditions…