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NEW YORK HOTELS NOT KEEPING IT CLEAN BETWEEN


THE SHEETS? An investigation into hotel cleanliness has found that some establishments don’t clean their sheets between guests.


Inside Edition, who carried out the investigation, stayed in nine upmarket hotels across New York and, according to their findings, a third of which hadn’t changed or washed their bedding in time for the arrival of new guests.


The investigators sprayed the bed sheets with the message ‘I slept here’, using washable invisible UV paint at the Marriott Residence Inn in Manhattan, before checking out and leaving the bed looking like it was slept in.


They then checked back into the same room at the hotel under a different name, and found that the message was still there.


This also happened at the Candlewood Inn & Suites in Times Square, and the La Quinta Inn & Suites near Central Park, according to their report.


After the findings were presented to them, the Marriott Corporation issued an apology and said it takes these issues very seriously, while a statement from the Intercontinental Hotels Group – owners of the Candlewood Inn said: “IHG takes great pride in setting stringent quality standards, which we take very seriously.


“Any claim that a hotel is not following the standards falls below our


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expectations. This incident serves as a reminder to all hotels to enforce this important standard.”


A spokesperson for La Quinta Inn added: “At La Quinta Inns & Suites, we strive to provide a positive, consistent guest experience at all of our branded hotels.


“This includes providing a clean room for every guest. We have reached out to the management team at this franchised location to understand what happened and have addressed the issue.”


SPORTS DIRECT BOSS ‘GAVE CLEANING


LADY £80,000 BONUS Notorious boss of Sports Direct, Mike Ashley, has opposed claims of staff mistreatment, claiming that he gave a cleaning lady an £80,000 bonus.


Ashley and his company have been under intense scrutiny of late, with MPs comparing the working practices at Sports Direct’s Shirebrook warehouse to a ‘Victorian workhouse’, in a damning report into working conditions released earlier this year.


However, speaking to BBC Breakfast, Ashley, who also owns Newcastle United football club, defended his company’s working practices, claiming that they had paid out £200m in bonuses over the last five years.


“The cleaning lady got an £80,000 bonus on top of her normal pay. No


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one in the UK has done that,” he said.


However, he did claim that he was unaware of how his workers were treated across the company. He said: “You’d be surprised how little I knew about what was going on and I think that’s really where the failing was. How do I know what a night shift does from 12am till seven in the morning? There are lots of hours in the week that I’m not there.”


Sports Direct has since pledged to undertake an independent review of working practices and corporate governance, after months of criticism from MPs employees and investors.


It follows a 37-page report, published by the Business, Innovations and Skills committee in July, that stated the discount retailer treated workers as ‘commodities’ rather than human beings. The Committee heard a series of accounts of worker mistreatment, including staff being penalised for matters such as taking a short break to drink water, or taking time off work when ill.


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