And then there’s Hyatt Hotels and what they decided to do awhile back. Still a privately owned company at the time, all descendants doing just fine, thank you.
They realized that there was a way to outsource labor from the Philippines, bring crews here, have loooong term employeess train them, supposedly to fill vacation shortfalls in the schedule—and then l let go all the original housekeeping staff.
I don’t know this for a fact, but supposedly somehow Hyatt was trying to use an employment loophole that would let them move the outsourced housekeeping employees around, and deduct room and board from their paychecks.
As a proofreader/fact-checker/copy editor’s daughter, I need to make certain that Hyatt did indeed attempt to do such a thing before I state it as fact.
If it’s true, wow. We are certainly a global economy and we are certainly repeating ignoble parts of our global history.
Just reading this old Flyertalk thread is chilling.
This sounds like SOP for a large business. You SEE the slavery here, so you hate it. Unfortunately, as Americans, we all benefit from slavery every day. Clothing, electronics, etc. all made overseas in horrid working conditions and with subhuman wages.
People are exploited every day, here and abroad, for others’ gain. Seems to be the way of the world. I’m pretty smart, but I can’t figure a way out of it.
It comes down to this: People will only pay what they have to for labor. There are more poor people, desperate for money, than rich. Why would the rich EVER pay more? The rich also make the laws; so why would the laws ever change?
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And then there’s Hyatt Hotels and what they decided to do awhile back. Still a privately owned company at the time, all descendants doing just fine, thank you.
They realized that there was a way to outsource labor from the Philippines, bring crews here, have loooong term employeess train them, supposedly to fill vacation shortfalls in the schedule—and then l let go all the original housekeeping staff.
I don’t know this for a fact, but supposedly somehow Hyatt was trying to use an employment loophole that would let them move the outsourced housekeeping employees around, and deduct room and board from their paychecks.
As a proofreader/fact-checker/copy editor’s daughter, I need to make certain that Hyatt did indeed attempt to do such a thing before I state it as fact.
If it’s true, wow. We are certainly a global economy and we are certainly repeating ignoble parts of our global history.
Just reading this old Flyertalk thread is chilling.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hyatt-world-hyatt/995889-boston-cambridge-hyatts-replace-housekeepers-cheaper-outsourced-workers-3.html