Zero-hours congrats


The UK’s leading supplier of outsourced hospitality and housekeeping services is to show the door to zero-hours contracts.


WGC has said it will abolish zero-hours contracts in a major step forward for workers and is calling on the UK hotel industry to follow its lead and work with the union.


More than 5,000 workers employed as housekeepers, room attendants and porters in hotels up and down the country working under WGC hotel sector contracts, will be offered the opportunity to move to a guaranteed minimum hour contract from November 2017.


Dave Turnbull, regional officer for the Unite general union, said: “Now we need the rest of the industry to follow its lead."


Unite has teamed up with the International Union of Food Workers, and unions from around the world to mark Global Hotel Housekeepers week in October — a worldwide campaign for dignity and safe work for hotel housekeepers.


http://unitelive.org/it-can-be-done