UK: Ecuadorian cleaner sacked for "theft" after eating leftover food at City law firm offices suing Total Clean for unfair dismissal
요약
보고된 날짜: 2024년 2월 20일
위치: 영국
기업 페이지
Total Clean - Employer , Devonshires - Client영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 1
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 1 - 에콰도르 , 청소 및 유지보수 , Women , Unknown migration status )토픽들
해고결과
Response sought: 네
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시행된 조치: Total Clean has described the allegations as ‘misleading and inaccurate’. A spokesperson told The Guardian, “…It is important to us to maintain the integrity of our workforce and service by ensuring we deal appropriately with any actions that undermine the hard work and reputation of our incredible team…All steps taken have been in accordance with UK employment law…”. A spokesperson for Devonshire Solicitors said: " Devonshires did not make a formal complaint against Gabriela and expressly told Total Clean not to take any action against her. Total Clean carried out their own investigation and the decision to dismiss Gabriela was taken without any input or influence from Devonshires whatsoever…This is a private matter between Total Clean and Gabriela but we have made clear to Total Clean that we would not object – as we never have done – to Gabriela attending and working on our premises if Total Clean changes its position.”
출처: News outlet
"Cleaner sacked 'for eating leftover tuna sandwich" at London law firm,"
A cleaner was sacked on the grounds of ‘theft’ for eating a leftover tuna sandwich as she cleaned the offices of a top London law firm, it has been claimed.
Gabriela Rodriguez, a single mother from Ecuador who worked for agency Total Clean, spent two years cleaning the City headquarters of solicitors Devonshires.
But she was reportedly dismissed from her £13-an-hour job by Total Clean shortly before Christmas, after she ate a tuna sandwich that had been left over following a lawyers’ lunch...
Ms Rodriguez, 39, is now reportedly suing Total Clean for unfair dismissal.
Total Clean - which provides cleaning services for commercial and office spaces across London - described the allegations against it as “misleading and inaccurate” and maintained it has acted in accordance with employment law.
Some of Ms Rodriguez’s colleagues have protested at Devonshires’ office near Moorgate.
On X, union United Voices of the World (UVW), which represents low-paid and migrant workers, shared footage of protesters carrying cardboard signs saying ‘sacked for a tuna sandwich’ and ‘we are not the dirt we clean’...