Catering group Aramark should respect its workers
The US catering group Aramark should respect workers' right to a living wage and to negotiate collectively with their employer, according to the SIPTU Services Division Organiser, Denis Hynes. He said: “Aramark is a growing player in the food service sector in Ireland. It recently announced it is buying the Avoca chain of luxury retail outlets and cafés for a figure that it believed to exceed €60 million.
“At the same time, Aramark is cutting workers’ hours of work to fund the small increase in the minimum wage that it will have to pay from January 2016. SIPTU is calling upon the management of Aramark to respect its workers and negotiate with them a fair share of its increasing profits.”
Aramark employs over 3,000 workers in Ireland providing catering services to the public and private sector.
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