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THE giant AccorHotels company announced yesterday that it would apply the government’s so-called living wage to all its staff irrespective of age, but campaigners described the concession as “crumbs from the master’s table.”
The owner of the Ibis and Novotel hotel chains employs 5,000 people in Britain, of whom 16 per cent are aged under 25.
Chancellor George Osborne’s new minimum wage of £7.20 per hour is only mandatory for workers of 25 or over.
Behind the cute names of Scotland’s road gritters lies a workforce underpaid and overlooked – a fitting reflection of a Budget that protected profits, bungled its rollout and offered hardly a glimmer of hope, writes MATT KERR
NICK TROY lauds the young staff at a hotel chain and cinema giant who are ready to take on the bosses for their rights
Labour’s watered-down legislation won’t protect us from unfair dismissal or ban some zero-hours contracts until 2027 — leaving millions of young people vulnerable to the populist right’s appeal, warns TUC young workers chair FRASER MCGUIRE
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart