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To: Publicis, owners of Saatchi and Saatchi
Make Saatchi & Saatchi pay their cleaners properly
The cleaners who worked for Consolidated Office Cleaning Ltd (COC), which was subcontracted by Saatchis, are owed around £1,000 each because COC have gone into liquidation. Saatchis, accepting some moral responsibility, have offered to pay a miserable 30 % of the arrears; they must pay the entire amount.
Why is this important?
The mostly Spanish-speaking workers are employed on pitiful wages to clean Saatchis' offices because the work was outsourced to COC. The cleaners have no resources or understanding of the byzantine system they are in, and the costs of mounting an employment claim are far beyond them. Saatchis are an extremely rich corporation and, by outsourcing the work to a firm that has failed because it did not pay the taxes it owed, they retain a huge moral responsibility to make good the damage done by their own policy. They must be shamed into paying up!
A typical example of the workers affected is Francisco Javer Horedia, who earns the princely sum of £800 a month from two cleaning jobs: 15 hours a week at Saatchis and 12.5 hours at another firm; he is unable to find full-time work. Could you survive on such wages?
More details on the workers and their situation can be found here; http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/07/saatchi-cleaners-fight-unpaid-wages-low-pay
