BICO has terminated the current contracts of all its mobile ice cream salespersons, accusing them of breaching agreements with the company.Executive Chairman Edwin Thirlwell announced on Friday that the independent operators now have until the end of this month to decide if they will accept new contracts.The decision seemed to catch the contractors off guard, coming on the heels of a settlement with the ice cream manufacturer on new plug-in electricity charges, which had resulted in the salespersons agreeing to resume work after several weeks of strike action.Spokesman for the independent contractors, David McClean said his colleagues will reassess their working relationship with BICO by May 31.“They were all in breach,” Thirlwell told Barbados TODAY when asked about the contracts, although not specifying what breaches had occurred. “The trouble is with the old contract, everyone was looking backwards and now we say we will have to look forward and revert to what we had in the first place because the present system is not fit for purpose.”
