There’s this Director of a Cleaning Company. He drives a Bentley, has a £2 Million house in Cheshire, and takes extended holidays all around the world. His daughters own and ride horses, and are being educated at private schools.
I mentioned he owns a Cleaning Company, didn’t I. It is the Cleaning Company that has raked in the dosh for him.
His Cleaning Company employs cleaners on minimum wage, yet charges the businesses they clean around £15 an hour per cleaner that he provides.
True, he has to pay for supervisors, products and a van or two, as well as fund a small office and a clerical lady to deal with wages, out of his just under a £ tenner ‘profit’ per cleaner per hour, but he is making a very nice living, thank you.
His Cleaning Company has lots of fairly major contracts across the UK with certain businesses that can’t be bothered to directly employ and directly pay the cleaners. Instead, they prefer to sub-contract to a ‘Cleaning Company’.
Why?
Apparently, it gives them peace of mind. Peace of mind? How can anybody have peace of mind knowing that cleaners are being paid minimum wage, yet usually have a supervisor telling them they are not fast enough, good enough, etc., etc. Typically a cleaner employed to do 2 hours work will stay for an extra 20 or 30 minutes each day in order to get the job done, fearing the sack for not being quick enough and thorough enough.
This is the norm with so many ‘Cleaning Companies’. They bully and push their workers to go the extra mile. And all to ensure the profits of the Cleaning Company remain high.
Maybe we need to get rid of these sub-contractors. They are truly leeching off the backs of good honest hard workers.
Large organisations should directly employ all staff, paying them a decent wage. Even paying them slightly less than they are paying the sub-contracting company would cost less than the current situation.
And the fat cats wouldn’t get so fat on other people’s hard labour.
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