Harbour Hotels
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What’s your opinion on trial shifts for…
What’s your opinion on trial shifts for a new job? In this instance at the Harbour Hotel, Guildford my daughter was booked for a ‘trial’ shift to work as a waitress for a wedding for 3 hours (and was then requested an extra hour at the last minute which my daughter agreed to do). She took a full and active role in providing a service (experienced in a chef restaurant) for the TRIAL. She bought a whole new outfit she was that committed. As a trial, it works two ways right? She decided it was not suitable to maximise on her skill set so said she appreciated the opportunity to trial but unless a higher grade role was coming up, it wasn’t a good fit for her at the moment. They didn’t offer to pay her despite her working for an event that they were charging for and she gave them an extra hour as they requested. When she asked to be paid she was told that they would ‘check it out’ Since then no ‘checking out’ has been done and no follow up from my phone call to the deputy night manager Charlie. So if Nick Aristodemou the General Manager is reading this, please can we have a public explanation? It doesn’t appear to reflect the ‘higher standards your hotel purports to uphold and nor does it seem very fair? Check out the law suit against Marco Polo White … restaurant sued over £10 trial session he refused to pay. Is it really worth that publicity? To me it seems mean and unfair and I’m teaching my daughter to stand up to people that exploit others. Comments from the Harbour hotel welcome 🙏 We have asked for a reply from harbour hotel and hopefully we will get one with persistent requests from as many channels we can find to simply uphold fair business practices 🙏