"Mayfair club kitchen porters call for the Living Wage", 6 June 2019

The Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) has urged one of London’s most exclusive membership clubs to ensure its kitchen staff are paid the London Living Wage and their conditions maintained as they are outsourced to another employer...

...The staff were recently outsourced to cleaning company ACT Clean. IWGB said workers feared this would result the conditions being eroded further and put them at risk of reduced pay and zero-hours contracts.

Around 19 members of staff have threatened to go on strike if their pay is not increased to the London Living Wage of £10.55 an hour, which is set by the Living Wage Foundation.

According to payslips and contracts...the kitchen porters earn £8.65 an hour, work up to a 48-hour week, receive a 20-minute unpaid lunch break and are not paid for overtime.

A spokesperson for ACT Clean told the Times that staff had been told they would stay on the same contracts when they transferred to the company. 5 Hertford Street club was not available for comment at the time of publication.