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‘THEY WERE PAYING ME A PITTANCE’

A PENSIONER employed to hand deliver voting forms for next year’s council elections pulled out half way through after finding she was being paid less than the minimum wage.
Now Ann Ashley, 73, of the Peabody Estate, Abbey Orchard Street, Victoria, is furious that Westminster Council has refused to pay her anything for delivering electoral registration forms to 585 addresses in Victoria.
The head of Unison in Westminster Rahul Patel attacked the council for failing to pay canvassers and is seeking legal advice to find out if their “ambiguous” pay structure stands up in law.
Mr Patel said: “Westminster has been using cheap labour and has been fairly exploitative in extracting labour in this way. It has had problems before in retrieving information about electoral registration and it seems hardly surprising when people are treated like that.”
But the council has argued it made it clear canvassers would not be paid a penny unless the three-fold requirements of the job were completed “to a satisfactory level”. Mr Patel added: “When people are employed to deliver the forms they are warned it can be arduous work but the reality is that what people are told is disproportionate to the work they actually have to do.
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