How clean is your hotel room? Housekeepers say the industry has dirty secrets

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Some housekeepers say the accommodation industry has some dirty secrets, as workplace rights advocates fear the sector is ripe for staff exploitation and rush jobs.

Marylouise McLaws, a professor of epidemiology and infectious diseases control at University of New South Wales, said staying in a hotel could be like"sharing your bedroom" with hundreds of other people.

"It was hard to even breathe," she said."We had to clean the room three times before we could rent it out again".Advocates for workers have said dirty rooms are just one casualty of a sector in which workers are routinely underpaid and overworked.found housekeepers working at four and five-star hotels in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne were not being paid correctly.

"This practice is certainly not widespread among the Accommodation Association of Australia's members, and in fact we provide an audit service as part of the membership to assist with best practice," it said.

 

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