Management at the Centara Grand Island Resort in North Ari Atoll have increased the service charge allocated to staff after workers held a strike yesterday.
A employee told Minivan News that staff from the housekeeping department, front office and food and beverage department participated in the strike from 10:00am yesterday morning to 4:30pm in the afternoon.
He said the staff held the strike because they were not receiving the service charges agreed to them by management, adding that the management had persisted in giving them the lower amount “claiming that the room revenue was very low.”
“The general manager and someone from labor ministry came and spoke to us and said the service charge would be increased,” he said.
”The general manager gave us three documents guaranteeing they would add $US300 to our service charge from this month onwards.”
He said staff would renew the strike if the management failed to follow the conditions in the document.
Spokesperson for the Ministry of Human Resources, Youth and Sports, Ahmed Shinan, said while he was unable to comment on the specifics of the incident, the ministry had received information about the case and a representative from the ministry had visited the island.
The management of Centara Grand Island Resort had not responded to Minivan News at time of press.
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