OUTSOURCED migrant cleaners at a central London hotel have slammed bosses for failing to pay staff furlough wages.

The workers, represented by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB), protested at the London Elizabeth Hotel in Hyde Park on Saturday, accusing their employer Pridegreen of leaving them out of pocket.

Official HMRC records show that the company consistently applied for Covid-19 job support between December 2020 and June this year, the union said, but many workers were left without a livelihood during the same period. 

One cleaner was reportedly forced to resign in May due to the lack of payment, while another is allegedly missing five months’ wages.

After the case was first referred to arbitration service Acas in June last year, missing wages for April to June 2020 were paid, but IWGB warned that the problem was still ongoing. 

The union’s general secretary Henry Chango Lopez demanded that bosses “respect basic employment rights, immediately treat workers with respect and pay them the money they are legally entitled to.”

Pridegreen has been contacted for comment.