Ananova:

A supermarket chain in Hungary has fired dozens of shop assistants for stealing - on the evidence of a clairvoyant.

Angry trade unionists are demanding the staff be reinstated and say the German bosses of the chain only acted to cut staff numbers.

According to a report by the Hungarian Trades Union Federation, managers at Penny Market took the personnel files of employees to the clairvoyant and fired more than two dozen she identified as thieves.

They say the reality was that the shops were overstaffed.

The union says it is setting up special action groups to identify cases in which employees were unfairly dismissed and have them reinstated.