Senator - I Should Have Research G4S Before Offering My Application. Look at the Malawi Stuff...OMG!!! Maybe I Should Work for an American Company?

"A spokesperson said Group 4 Securicor was rapidly becoming the 'the worst face of global capitalism'...." Corporate Watch

Workforce

For other staff, G4S has not been as generous an employer. The company's outsourcing model depends on cost-cutting, and the first cost is invariably the staff. In the UK, complaints have been made against G4S detention centres for being under-staffed, leading to detainees missing medical and court appointments. (see www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=3471) Whistleblowers have accused the company of not providing adequate training to security guards 'escorting' refugees on mass deportation flights.[20]

When responsibility for a public service transfers to G4S, terms of conditions of existing staff salaries may stay the same but they rarely extend to new staff. About 600 staff switched to G4S when it took over running Winson Green prison in Birmingham in 2011, for example. Although the former government employees retained their salaries, new recruits have been brought in on lower than the average £28,000 pay and on different terms and conditions.[21]

And as it expands into 'developing markets', the majority of its employees' wages are sliding further away from their bosses in the UK. RecentlyFor example, security guards in Nepal and South Korea recently went on striketo protest against G4S' low levels of pay, (see www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=4220) for example, while an investigation by Malawi's Sunday Timesnewspaper found that wages paid by G4S “raised questions about the survival mechanisms [employees use] to see themselves and their families through each month.”[22]

The NGO War on Want had previously found that G4S paid its workers so little in Malawi that “their daily meals consisted of only bread, they lived in homes without electricity or running water and cannot afford to meet their children's school or medical fees”. It also found that white G4S managers inSouth Africa were accused of forcing black employees to use separate toilets “while white guards are given keys to the company toilet. And black G4S guards at Johannesburg airport complain that white supervisors call them 'kaffirs' and 'monkeys'”.[23]

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