Wendy's Management rip off staff.

Wendy is such a sweet name, it makes one visualise a picture of an innocent young woman like the sweet innocent character out of the Peter Pan stories. It’s a PR concoction used to create a sort of heavenly image and to install in people a dream vision of a loving character who couldn’t harm a fly.

The users of the name ‘Wendy’s’ to head a fast food outlet have really gone overboard to prove how rotten management can become in this day and age.

Respect, honesty and fairness and trustworthiness, these words most certainly don’t apply to Wendy’s fast food outlets…because Wendy’s is run by super-mean, super-heavy handed and super stingy people who care little about their mainly young and very low paid [if paid at all] employees.

In fact it is difficult to consider this chain of fast food outlets actually employees anyone. You see they operate what are known as ‘No hours employment contracts’…Now most honest human beings would have a hard job coming to grips with the weird concept of ‘No Hours’ employment contracts.

I mean how you can have an employment contract that doesn’t define ones working hours and conditions of work beats me… A one way contract that gives the employer the right to decide at the time you turn up to work [each day] whether they will let you work that day or not.

Could you survive like that, seriously folks how you could pay the rent, the power, pay off your student loan if you didn’t have some certainty about the amount of money you could earn on a weekly basis. And remember the government considers that you have a job if you’ve signed one of these weird one way contracts.

This is Act Party economics gone mad…yet Wendy’s a kindly fun-loving staff rip-off employer who sells fast food to an innocent public, actually gets away with this inhuman rip-off behaviour on a daily basis. In real terms it is criminal and Wendy’s bosses should be jailed for their behaviour, but I bet you that Garth McVicker overlord of the Sensible Sentancing Trust won’t be pushing for their imprisonment.

Seventeen Wendy’s no hours contract staff at Wendy’s Rangitikei Street operation are saying enough is an enough. They want their present contracts squashed and the no hours element tossed out. They also want a day in lieu of working on public holidays to apply to them as it does to other fast food outlets run by more progressive companies.

Bonita Belworthy is a ‘Unite Union Organiser and more than half of the staff at the Rangitikei St Wendy’s operations, belong to the Unite Union, and Unite is the fastest growing union in the country and the reason is obvious. They actually do something! Many other organisations simply and meekly accept the employers and governments bullying, and fail to stand up for their members and others working rights. Those who do nothing are like rats departing a sinking ship. It would certainly appear that Unite has no plans to give up the fight. You the reader can help, we you vist a fast food outfit ask if they have ‘No hours contracts’ and if their answer is yes…go somewhere else to buy your food.

You can help also by sending a message to your so-call MP telling him or her to get off their fat backsides and do something for those Wendy’s workers who are being ripped off.