UNITE will hold socially distanced demonstrations outside the Intercontinental hotels in Group in Glasgow and Edinburgh today in protest at bosses’ fire-and-rehire practices.

As the union prepared for the demos as part of a national day of action against fire and rehire, which has been especially widespread in the hospitality sector, it hit out at the Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) over its treatment of workers during the coronavirus pandemic. 

IHG faced criticism last year when it ended the employment of 95 per cent of staff at the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow and The George in Edinburgh, blaming the closure of both hotels on Covid-related restrictions.