Toyota workers consider FWA appeal over sackings

Toyota Australia will by today have sacked 350 workers after assessing their adherence to company values, how they dress, punctuality and safety record.

The car giant increased the amount paid out to each worker from three to four weeks for each year of service at the company's Altona plant in Melbourne, with the cap increased from 75 to 90 weeks.

But the method of the sackings, which started yesterday, came under fire from workers yesterday, with many employees vowing to challenge their dismissal in Fair Work Australia.

Amid scores of extra security personnel, employees were escorted one by one from the plant, and driven in tinted vans to a nearby motel where they were briefed on their assessments and told they had lost their jobs.

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