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Wake Up Warning
11 January 1980
DAILY MIRROR
Night-shift workers were given a wake-up warning by British Leyland bosses yesterday .
A spokesman said that they would consider taking action against anyone found dozing at work .
The warning came after an industrial tribunal ruled that the company was right to sack a foreman who took a folding bed to work .
The spokesman at Leyland’s Rover plant in Solihull said yesterday : “We do not condone sleeping or dozing in working hours .”
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