Hyatt suddenly lays off housekeepers

[ron_newman]

Some of the staff we all love at the Hyatt were suddenly laid off last month -- after being asked to train their replacements:

Housekeepers lose Hyatt jobs to outsourcing

When the housekeepers at the three Hyatt hotels in the Boston area were asked to train some new workers, they said they were told the trainees would be filling in during vacations.

On Aug. 31, staffers learned the full story: None of them would be making the beds and cleaning the showers any longer. All of them were losing their jobs. The trainees, it turns out, were employees of a Georgia company, Hospitality Staffing Solutions, who were replacing them that day.

Comments

[grymdragon.livejournal.com]

I think consideration to senior employees, particularly those who have been there for 20 years such as the housekeeper interviewed in the article, would have been to make some sort of accomodation, even if it was limited to allowing them to retain their position at a lower rate of pay.

Sure, two or three months of pay is great, but once that money runs out, it's going to be much harder for older employees to find jobs in this market than younger employees.