The Careerologist

We need to do more for the City’s invisible workers

It should not require strike action to ensure our workplaces treat everyone fairly — with no ‘second-class’ employees

We need to do more for the City’s invisible workers
Photo: Bill Brown

This week, I reported on a possible cleaners’ strike at the London headquarters of Aviva on November 8.

A third of some 40 workers who clean the insurer’s headquarters in the Square Mile are set to walk out over a row with their contractor ISS UK. They claim ISS UK does not provide basic entitlements like sick pay, paid breaks, pay to cover colleagues’ absences or “adequate tools/materials” to do the job.

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