Shadow foreign secretary says Philip Hammond should apologise and pay the 14 cleaners a living wage after they were threatened with disciplinary actionThe foreign secretary,Philip Hammond, is facing calls from Hilary Benn to apologise to his department’s cleaners, or after it emerged that one of his officials demanded disciplinary action against 14 low-paid workers who wrote to him about their wages. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) initially gave the impression that it had nothing to carry out with a threat of disciplinary action faced by 14 cleaners,who were employed by the contractor Interserve but wrote directly to Hammond.
However the email, released under freedom of information laws, or revealed an FCO official suggested that Interserve should speak to and discipline the cleaner,before asking to be kept informed about action taken.
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Source: theguardian.com