Staff at Oxfordshire hotel are made redundant before Christmas as bosses agree private Government contract to take in asylum seekers and cancels all reservations and weddings

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  2. This is a shitty company – they gave assurances of things like pay and then never followed through.

    /u/070420210854 – don’t blame this on the migrants, or even on the government that wants to house them. This could have been done in such a way that nobody lost their jobs, or nobody lost their jobs unfairly.

    That it wasn’t is because of a failure of the **hotel’s** management, don’t use this as an excuse to justify xenophobia.

  3. Suppose people were to sit across the entrances to these hotels, or the

    approach roads to these hotels, how quickly would you imagine the police would disperse these “protesters”. There something decidedly wrong about all this, the loss of jobs and cancellations – just wrong.

  4. Once the hotels are empty of refugees, I hope people remember how they treated their staff and nobody goes. Drive them out of business.

  5. Is this what it takes to get the Daily Mail to give a shit about workers and workers’ rights?

    Is this what it takes for them to understand that it’s shitty for the workers’ bosses to choose a course of action which increases their profits while fucking over the workers and that it’s wrong that our laws don’t give greater protection to those workers?

    Or are they going to try to blame it on refugees for existing?

  6. The only reason the Daily Mail are arsed about this is because they are housing migrants otherwise its just what they encourage people to vote for; enabling businesses to get away increasingly shitty behaviour.

    And, obviously, cheerleading the prolapsing of our economy, meaning taking migrants is a more reliable source of money than relying on us actually having any disposable income.

  7. Who is France, or most Europe countries, at war with? Refugees and asylum seekers is a very specific definition, unless France is at war they can’t be either of those things.

  9. Already comments on this thread blaming the asylum seekers and not the hotel bosses for chasing profits and not caring for their workers. I’m sure the greedy execs love having the heat taken off of them though.

    Shame on the government for encouraging this instead of managing asylum seekers properly.

  10. I dislike the daily mail but it’s clearly a problem.

    I don’t care what side you sit on this, this is a terrible way of housing people for months on end.

    If you are pro migrants etc
    – living in a hotel for months on end, is horrible, even if it’s 4 stars gets horrible, nothing to do nothing to read etc, just waiting around.

    If you are anti migrants etc
    – this is unreasonably expensive for what it is.

    Either way
    – this is giving profits to some random private company (s) at the cost of local employment
    – this is harmful for future tourism prospects

    There should be a dedicated location for these people that had adequate facilities for the time they will spend there. It should include things like a library and facilities that will help them learn about the UK in case they are given the right to stay.

    No facility to house people and do what I said would cost anything like what the hotels cost and it doesn’t have to be some kind of camp.

    We should all just collectively agree that this is a massive government fuck up that is the governments problem alone.

  11. Happened to hotel next door to me. Lively countryside hotel_restaurant been there years. Out of nowhere they announce on insta they’re closing effective immediately cancel all weddings, then sack all staff without pay and refuse to give back deposits paid.

  13. Disgusting behaviour from that hotel(ignoring the usual bullshit from the Daily Mail) for firing their staff. At least, wait until the new year or give them a month’s notice. I hope this trashes their reputation and causes them to go under. It also fucks over a ton of people.

  14. It seems like only yesterday we were reading about hotels and restaurants struggling to attract staff post covid and brexit… Also bearing in mind all the covid layoffs etc.

  16. My niece works in an asylum hotel. Depending on who has the contract most of the staff are kept on but a lot of people leave due to the new dangerous environment and high tuberculosis levels of the “guests”.

    They’re actually struggling to attract new staff but there’s a new arrangement for bringing over staff from India on a live in basis.

    The main bone of contention is that the new Indian staff are all on minimum wage even for jobs which previously paid as much as £30K per annum and you have new staff like supervisors or junior managers on less money than some of the old staff who are two pay grades below them.

  17. See this ends up helping noone. If they’re detracting from the resident population to house a foreign population what does that actually do? Makes the resident population bitter towards the foreign population which defeats the issue entirely.

    Its about money, nothing more nothing less. As long as the bosses get THEIR paycheck then they couldn’t care less about anyone regardless of ethnicity or background.

  18. this is only going to get worse esp with climate change as that is one big thing that drives so many to leave their country…how it starts at least. Can’t remember which country it was but it hasn’t rained in so long, food wouldn’t grow, lack of water, people demanded action from their government, government refused, so you saw a rise of different groups, some trying to help people, others stealing from them, attacking the government, the rest of the world called them terrorists, people have the choice stay and fight or leave, so millions leave . If this happened in your home, you’d most likely leave as well.

    So with temperatures rising every year we will see a lot more of this, it was estimated over 60 million will head to Europe in the next 10yrs alone but that is probably outdated now with things getting worse than they imagined and sooner.

    One of the big issues in the UK is some would be able to live here, its just the process of getting people through the system is totally F’ed up due to the Tories. Their making this situation 100xs worse…why?…so they can use it to win elections. Labour will never say we’ll get rid of them but the Tories will, they are desperate, they have zero chance at the moment winning next election unless…win the brexit voters, ones against immigration, go against woke, and those will be the main focus of the entire election

  20. Daily Mail trying to stir up some hatred for asylum seekers as per usual for the newspaper that once wrote “Hurrah for the blackshirts” and has held fascist undertones ever since.

  21. This has happened in a very posh hotel in my hometown too.

    Hilariously one of the refuges dialed in a fake bomb threat and closed the street down.

    Oh and they’re 90% young single adult males…Local GP staff are asking not to be left alone with them or have to walk to their car after dark.

    Good one Britain. Lots of this is economic migration. Redditors can be very black and white. Of course everyone deserves the chance to prosper, but sadly we can’t accommodate everyone.

    It’s not as clear cut as “people are racist”. It’s pragmatism and recognising you have to put your own oxygen mask on before helping others.

    Over the next couple of decades we will see MILLIONS of displaced migrants due to climate change. We simply can’t accommodate them.

    So we got to start thinking of HOW to help in sustainable ways. Our public services are creaking already.

  23. “After a protest, the hotel has agreed to pay November’s wages and redundancies” – Why the fuck are they having to protest for this?

  26. I have no input to the conversation regarding the posted story.

    Just dropped in to say I’m seeing the words fascist and fascism used here, a LOT. I’m yet to find a person that’s used it correctly.

    That is all.

  27. We have a government actively conspiring against and fanning the anger of its people. All we need to see now is the chosen scapegoat

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