Marriott International Inc.

ILO violation 87,98 : In 2001, over one hundred housekeeping employees of the Renaissance Hotel in Seoul were forced to resign. Management gave assurances that they would return to work as employees of an outsourcing company - the newly created "Renaissance Service Team" - under the same terms and conditions they had received as direct employees of the hotel. Their wages, however, fell by 60% as outsourced employees performing the same work as before. In May 2004 a Labour Ministry investigation determined that the subcontracting constituted an "illegal dispatch" and ordered the hotel to employ them directly. The employer failed to respond to this procedure, and in November 2004 the union initiated a lawsuit on behalf of 15 workers, charging the hotel with delayed payment of wages - the difference between direct employees' wages and those paid by the service company. In retaliation, the outsourcing company terminated their services on December 31, 2005. Beginning the following day, union members initiated a daily picket which has continued every day in 2006.: South Korea

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