Underpayment, media hype and the forgotten workers of Manchester’s hospitality industry

In this week’s episode, Joshi, Mollie and Jack discuss The Mill’s most recent investigation into underpayment in Manchester’s hospitality industry. The team spent months looking into businesses underpaying or failing to pay their staff. They talk through their reporting process and the way that local media coverage has missed out the plight of Manchester’s hospitality workers. “The owner’s always have media representation but the workers don’t. So, if the worker’s not being paid but he sees the owner in the MEN saying: ‘this is a great place, we’re going to do well’, you’re already going to be disincentivised to speak to the press about this sort of thing.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.